Tennessee announced Friday it is leaving an alliance of 10 states that is threatening to sue the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“At this time, our office has decided not to challenge DACA in the litigation, because we believe there is a better approach,” Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slattery III wrote in a letter to the state’s two Republican senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander.

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