Federal Judge questions whether DACA lawsuits can use Trump's campaign remarks

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A federal district judge in New York City on Monday signed off on the government's request to appeal an order he issued in March allowing constitutional challenges to the Trump administration’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York had in March denied the government’s request to dismiss the challenger's claims that the administration had violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution by rescinding the program.

Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for 

the Eastern District of New York

DACA allows immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to secure work visas and avoid deportation.

Garaufis said at the time that the plaintiffs in the case had made a plausible case, based on President Trump's statements during the 2016 campaign, that the decision to end DACA was substantially motivated by racial animus.

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