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City of Miami Beach, 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139, www.miamibeachfl.gov
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR & COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Veronica Paysse, email: vp@miamibeachfl.gov
C: 305.338.8035
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 2019
The City of Miami Beach Stands with Dreamers and Their Families
-Miami Beach signs amicus brief in support of DACA-
Miami Beach, FL – The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) program and hundreds of thousands of Dreamers will be argued at the
U.S. Supreme Court on November 12, 2019. Miami Beach, along with hundreds
of cities and counties, signed an amicus brief in support of over 800,000 young
immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
“Our nation was built on the dreams of immigrants. We cannot allow the tapestry
of our country to be frayed by xenophobic hate,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan
Gelber.
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented the DACA
program, granting certain undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as
children a renewable two-year term of deferred action from deportation if they have
no criminal record and satisfy educational or military service requirements.
On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration, through then-Acting Secretary
of Homeland Security Duke, announced that it would begin phasing-out, and
ultimately rescind, DACA due to its belief that the program was unlawful. The
lawsuit for which this amicus brief has been submitted to SCOTUS, Department of
Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, was filed in response
to the program’s rescission.
In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the
District Court’s preliminary injunction restoring DACA. The United States Supreme
Court granted certiorari and will answer the following questions: (1) Whether DHS’s
decision to rescind DACA is judicially reviewable; and (2) Whether DHS’s decision
to rescind DACA is unlawful. Amici request that the Court hold that Petitioners’
decision to rescind DACA is reviewable and unlawful.
To read the brief click here.
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