Maldef files brief to close DAPA case

Immigrant rights advocates are urging a federal judge to close out a court case before Texas can use it to nix the Obama-era amnesty that’s currently protecting nearly 800,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers.

While the Trump administration is still trying to decide what to do about the Obama amnesty, known in Washington as DACA, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has taken up the case.

MALDEF told Judge Andrew S. Hanen that even though he has ruled against a broader amnesty, implemented by President Obama in 2014 and known as DAPA, he cannot now expand the case to include the original DACA amnesty, created in 2012.

“DACA was in place over two years before the 2014 DAPA memorandum [was] issued. Plaintiffs could have challenged it when they filed suit in December 2014, yet they instead chose to file suit only against the DAPA memorandum,” MALDEF said in its latest filing.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...tivists-as-wa/

It's Washington times so ignore their use of amnesty.

Interesting.

MALDEF is just an advocacy group. I do not think it would have that much weight. Although more groups can perhaps join. Universities, local governments etc...

Stop being so damn negative about everything. Maldef is more than an advocacy group. Google what they do before you spout nonsense.

For the ignorant ones on DAP.

MALDEF attorneys faced a setback in San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez in 1973, when they failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that Texas had violated the Fourteenth Amendment by not providing equal educational opportunities to poor children. Greater selectivity and patience in developing test cases resulted in important victories, such as Plyler v. Doe in 1982, in which the court accepted MALDEF’s argument that Texas could not exclude the children of undocumented illegal immigrants from public schools. In 1994 MALDEF successfully challenged California’s Proposition 187, a ballot initiative that denied public education, social services, and health services to undocumented immigrants. MALDEF has also argued successfully against at-large election systems—redistricting practices that minimize minority political influence—and (in state courts) against some school funding
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mex...Education-Fund

Thanks!

I did not mean to sound negative. Definately good information there.

If successful, this will buy us more time and make it tougher for the AG's should they decide to continue with the case.

Let's have some faith in MALDEF

always remember that the lawsuit wont end DACA exactly on 9/5/17 and we don't really know whats gonna happen, even the Trump doesnt know.

the litigation process can go on for months, perhaps will last through early-summer 2018. maybe even go past the summer of 2018 if it goes to SCOTUS.

so keep continuing to renew your DACA's.

They are going to have a hard time explaining to Scotus why the program was not originally challenged.

I hate to be the negative person all the time...


But, would this happen before the lawsuit or after. Because the other factor in this is whether Trump will be forced to make a decision.

We also do not know how he will go forward.

But nevertheless this is really good news.

Would what happen? Obviously trump is not ending the program whether or not the lawsuit persists.