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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says that the state will file its own lawsuit in response to Donald Trump cruelly ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
“California will sue the Trump Administration over its termination of the DACA program for one simple reason,” Becerra said. “Our state has become the world’s sixth-largest economy due in part to the success of over 200,000 Dreamers whose livelihoods have been put at risk by President Trump’s wrong-headed decision on DACA.”
California’s lawsuit is separate from the one filed by a coalition of 15 states and Washington, D.C. yesterday. California was notably missing from that list of states, but as Becerra later clarified, the state decided to file its own claim “against the federal government because it is disproportionately harmed” by the end of DACA:
With a quarter of the 800,000 DACA participants coming from California, the state and its economy will be hurt more than other states, Becerra said,
“I think everyone recognizes the scope and breadth of the Trump decision to terminate DACA hits hardest here,” Becerra said in an interview.
“In terminating DACA,” Becerra tweeted, “the Trump Administration turns its backs on DREAMers who put trust in [the] government and violates our Constitution and federal law.”