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DACA policy: Dreamers can pursue lawsuit against Trump's 'Bad Hombres' bias

New York State and 15 state attorneys general filed the suit in September after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Obama-era policy would end on March 5

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A coalition of plaintiffs, including New York State and 15 state attorneys general as well as the District of Columbia, cited statements Trump made during his campaign describing Mexicans as "thugs," "animals" and "bad hombres" | Photo: Reuters

Patricia Hurtado | Bloomberg
President Donald Trump’s administration must defend a lawsuit targeting his plan to end a program offering protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants.

US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, New York, narrowed but didn’t dismiss the suit on Thursday, finding that there was a “plausible inference” that it was illegally aimed at Mexicans. He previously blocked the U.S. government from ending the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and from halting the renewal process, but hadn’t decided whether to allow the case to proceed.

On Thursday, Garaufis said those suing