“We applaud the Murphy administration’s decision to join an important lawsuit that stands up to the Trump administration and stands in defense of our state’s many immigrants.

The administration today announced it was joining 15 states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a 2012 Obama administration directive that protects undocumented youth from deportation and allows them to work legally in the country they call home.

This sends a strong message that New Jersey values our many immigrant friends and neighbors and that we stand alongside the 17,400 New Jersey DACA recipients whose lives hang in the balance and who are at risk of deportation until Congress finds a permanent legislative solution.

The other plaintiffs include Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. California filed a separate lawsuit a week after the 15 other states filed the legal challenge.”