Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Please join us tomorrow when we launch the We Stand with Rosa campaign. Come to Southside at noon and get your sign. We are still hoping that Rosa's sons will be filing their DACA applications very soon despite the fact that a judge issued an injunction on the deferred action stemming from November 20.Another Tucson sanctuary case, Francisco Perez Cordova (who lived at St. Francis United Methodist Church for three months until he left Dec. 24), got his case closed thanks to the protection granted to parents. Perez Cordova has five U.S. citizens children, and the program, which is known as DAPA, is what allowed him to go home to his family without fearing deportation. His case is closed for now, but parents like Perez Cordova may not be able to apply for the program—applications could be sent starting mid-to-late May—if the block isn't struck down.
Despite its extreme and inflammatory rhetoric, the Texas court decision does not explicitly hold that DAPA, DACA, or any other part of the federal government's executive actions, is unconstitutional.
The decision is very narrow, holding only that the federal government may have failed to follow procedural requirements before implementing Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
While this setback is serious and should be redressed in due course, the government's other reforms to protect civil liberties and immigrant communities — including the fundamental principle that the Department of Homeland Security may set priorities for immigration enforcement and exercise prosecutorial discretion — remain in place.
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