Five Colorado universities join amicus brief asking Supreme Court to protect DACA
More than 150 universities joined an amicus brief filed Friday in the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that has allowed about 17,000 Coloradans and hundreds of thousands of others brought to the country illegally as children to have a legal presence.
Among the hundreds that joined, five Colorado institutions signed onto the brief, which was organized by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.
They are: Colorado Mountain College, the Colorado State University system, Metropolitan State University, the University of Colorado system and the University of Denver ...
The amicus brief argues that DACA allows tens of thousands of undocumented [illegal alien] students to pursue a secondary degree and that rescinding the program will “severely harm” the students’ lives and “sap our higher education communities of needed talent, diversity and leadership,” the release said.
DACA was rescinded by the Trump administration on Sept.5, 2017. Since then, a series of lawsuits have attempted to determine the legality of the program ...
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