Donald Trump has had to settle, by consent decrees, the last four federal suits the erstwhile public advocacy group East Bay Sanctuary brought against lawless border/ICE activity during Tangerine 1.0.

This is an office that is very well staffed, with a very capable set of advocates.

I am confident they will be able to force Tangerine 2.0’s federal machinery to comply with the FIOA strictures. These young people are entitled to know what they must do, in order to remain in Trump’s version of the program — and when they must do it. He cannot end this — not without an all-new Act of Congress. That’s how this works. Here’s the 20 page complaint (filed in the Bay Area while I was off-grid) — and a bit of it:

…Plaintiffs have sought information from Defendants about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) policy and in particular the severe delays DACA recipients around the country have experienced in renewing their grants of DACA since at least November 2025. This information is directly relevant to Plaintiffs’ mission to serve clients who are affected by the delayed renewals and advising them on how to navigate the consequences of these delays. Plaintiffs also intend to widely disseminate this information to inform the public as part of their core mission of gathering and sharing immigration-related information in connection with their legal and advocacy work.

The absence of any explanation for these delays in processing DACA renewal applications leaves Plaintiffs’ clients and other DACA recipients at a loss as to how they should proceed in seeking to renew their DACA grants. USCIS guidance recommends that DACA recipients submit their renewal requests between 120 days and 150 days before their current DACA grant will expire. Yet DACA recipients who follow this guidance are finding their current DACA grants lapse before their renewal requests are adjudicated. The consequences of delayed DACA renewals have a profound impact on DACA recipients, their families, and their communities….

For example, a 26-year-old graduate from a top medical school is unable to begin his residency in anesthesiology because his DACA renewal has not yet been adjudicated. Similarly, a DACA recipient who completed his fellowship in orthopedic surgery in New York was set to begin a position in an underserved medical center in rural Pennsylvania later this year, but has not been able to work since February due to the delay in his DACA renewal. And nurses at Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area have been placed on unpaid leave after their DACA lapsed, despite filing for renewals over four months in advance.

For these individuals and the many others experiencing delayed DACA renewal adjudications, the delays have jeopardized not only their educations, careers, and livelihoods, but also threaten their ability to provide for their families and care for their communities through the service professions to which they have dedicated themselves….

We — as a nation — need to rise up, and tell the MAGA idiots with one voice… their guy at 1600 Penn lacks the independent power to undo Acts of Congress — to upend lives of DADA dreamers who are making our nation a better place. He is allowed to disagree with prior law, but in order to change it — he must have his Congress (he controls both chambers at the moment) pass new legislation.

He is. . . in short, no king. Onward, resolutely.

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