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US tells court: Block records bid in young immigrants’ cases
NEW YORK – The Department of Justice is arguing in a New York court it shouldn’t have to turn over records related to President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation.
Lawyers for the Republican president’s administration asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to overturn a lower court’s order they say would potentially require government agencies to review more than 1 million documents.
Activists are suing Trump’s administration over the planned shutdown of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. They want a chance to review documents showing how Trump decided to end the program.
Department of Justice lawyers call the document request “extraordinarily burdensome and intrusive.”
The appeals court has scheduled arguments for Tuesday before a three-judge panel.
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