DACA cause dealt major blow at hearing
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Olga Bravo, left, and Ramona Casas, representing ARISE, a pro-immigration community based nonprofit, defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program during a planned rally Wednesday in front of the federal courthouse in Brownsville.
Posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:05 pm
BY Frank Garza Staff Writer
The Department of Justice dealt a major blow to the four immigrants who filed on behalf of more than 50,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients by stating it was well within U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen’s “equitable power” to request their private identifying information (PII).
Although a hearing on Wednesday afternoon ultimately ended up nowhere closer to a resolution to the case, the Justice Department agreed with Hanen that the sanctions imposed against them and the request for the PII were two separate issues.
“The Department of Justice gave (the PII) legs beyond the sanctions,” said Nina Perales, the vice president of litigation of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). “Right now, it is unclear whether the DoJ is suggesting accepting the potential disclosure of DACA recipients in exchange for vacating sanctions.”
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