So Far, Massachusetts AG Healey Mum On Potential DACA Litigation (UPDATED)
By Evan Lips | September 5, 2017, 10:48 EDT
(UPDATED 7:45 p.m. 9/5/17)
Attorney General Maura Healey, including her communications staff, did not return a message from the New Boston Post on Tuesday morning requesting comment and updates on her plan regarding DACA. Healey did however take to social media Tuesday afternoon:
The Trump administration’s cruelty is unacceptable and un-American.
In the coming days, we will be taking action to #DefendDACA.
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) September 5, 2017
What does it say about us if we play politics with the futures of 800,000 people?
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) September 5, 2017
DACA is more than a public policy issue — it’s about our public morality.
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) September 5, 2017
This is a shameful decision by @POTUS.
Dreamers grew up in our neighborhoods, attend our schools, serve in our military.
We support THEM. https://t.co/JCVxigbUjK
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) September 5, 2017
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BOSTON — A spokesman for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey confirmed Tuesday morning that the state’s top cop has yet to file any litigation concerning President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to scrap the previous administration’s Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program, otherwise known as DACA, which granted citizenship to illegal aliens who happened to enter the country prior to their 16th birthday.
On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman vowed to take the Trump administration to court over its decision to end the program, launched in 2012, via a six-month delay.
Healey has yet to tip her hand on whether she’ll pursue similar legal action, but a scan of her social media activity indicates she deeply opposes Trump’s plan:
Here in Massachusetts, #DACA is working. #DefendDACA pic.twitter.com/NrEpoRnypl
— Maura Healey (@maura_healey) September 5, 2017
We believe that every person is worthy of dignity and that we are strongest when every member of our community has a chance to succeed #DACA
— Maura Healey (@maura_healey) September 5, 2017
The #DACA program is not just about public policy — it is also about public morality. https://t.co/OT2d5gUUTQ #DefendDACA
— Maura Healey (@maura_healey) September 5, 2017
#DACA is a success for countless communities and 800K Americans. DACA works. https://t.co/oW1bToY4YH
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) September 4, 2017
In one tweet, Healey vowed to protect “fight for” DACA participants, a hint that she may indeed take Trump to court over the issue:
Dreamers are Americans. We will fight for them. We will protect #DACA. https://t.co/p5wNIPkFvd
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) September 4, 2017