Everett Community College joins the legal effort to protect DACA's 'Dreamers'
EVERETT — Everett Community College has joined dozens of other higher education organizations in supporting a legal challenge of President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that allows young people who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children to remain in the country.
The Trump administration last year ordered an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. Multiple lawsuits have been filed around the country challenging that decision.
Judges have ruled that DACA must be maintained and that information gathered through the program cannot be used for deportation purposes. The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that it will continue to defend the legality of terminating the program.
Appeals are ongoing in U.S. courts.
More than 70 organizations with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration have signed an amicus brief, also called a friend of the court brief, filed earlier this month as part of a case in the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The brief was filed by attorneys with the Washington, D.C., law firm Jenner & Block.
Everett Community College signed the brief because it stays true to the school’s values of creating an environment “that upholds the basic human rights of all individuals,” EvCC President David Beyer said in a news release.
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