Seven red states sue Trump administration to end DACA

Published May 1, 2018 9:40pm ET



Seven states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to end the 2012 Obama-era program that protects immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children from the threat of deportation.

The Attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday challenging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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