Page 11 - CLT062220

NEWS JUNE 22, 2020 ¦ 11

Connecticut Leaders Celebrate SCOTUS
Decision Not to End DACA

By Marcia Coyle, Michael Marciano

CDACA supporters rally at the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 12, 2019. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi / ALM
onnecticut’s governor and lieutenant gover- Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz echoed the governor’s
nor celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling remarks. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today so-
Thursday in support of the Deferred Action lidifies what what we already know—Dreamers are
for Childhood Arrivals Program, protecting about as American as you and I, and our families,” she said.
700,000 immigrants from deportation. A divided “For years as the Trump Administration sought to
court ruled the Trump administration’s effort to end dismantle DACA, thousands of young people have
the program violated federal law. been forced to put their futures on hold. Today’s vic-
“The Supreme Court affirmed today what we have tory was made possible by the unwavering courage
been saying all along—Dreamers are members of and resilience of countless DACA recipients and
our communities, and any attempt to change that activists who stood up, fought for their dreams and
would be unjust and wrong,” said Gov. Ned Lamont refused to be silenced. This victory belongs to them.”
in a public statement.. “Tearing people from the Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. led the court in rul-
only homes they have ever known is cruel, heartless, ing 5-4 that the Trump administration had failed to
and—despite what the administration may claim— address important factors bearing on its decision to
doesn’t even serve a national security purpose.” wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Ar-
Lamont said the Supreme Court made “the right rivals program and that failure violated the federal
decision” Thursday by “giving Dreamers across our law known as the Administrative Procedure Act.
country the stability that they deserve.”
¦ Continued on PAGE 12

CONNECTICUT
Law Tribune