BATON ROUGE, LA – Attorney
General Jeff Landry today announced a seven state coalition against the Obama
Administration’s unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program.
“The Obama Administration pushed through DACA to fit
their political narrative and this lawsuit seeks to undo that unlawful action,”
said General Landry. “We are a nation of laws not of men and we must act in a
way that respects the process of legal citizenship."
While the Obama Administration argued that DACA would
not grant a pathway to citizenship, it ended up providing a pathway for over
39,000 illegal aliens while only proving legal citizenship to approximately
1,000. Furthermore, DACA granted lawful presence and work permits to
nearly one million illegal aliens.
Last year, following a call from Attorneys General,
President Trump agreed to phase out DACA by March 5. However, earlier this year
a California U.S. District Court blocked the federal government from ending
DACA and the D.C. Circuit Court ruled last week that the Trump Administration
had 90 days to fully restore DACA.
“It is simply bad policy to allow the Executive Branch
to disregard the process in which laws are created,” said General Landry. “I
have always been an advocate for the separation of powers and today’s lawsuit
is another step in ensuring that process is honored.”
General Landry joined Attorneys General from Alabama,
Arkansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia in filing today’s lawsuit.
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