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Nebraska DREAMers’ Lawsuit Against State to Move Forward

LINCOLN­­, Ne.–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2014.  A Nebraska District Court Judge has ruled that a lawsuit by DREAMers against Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles will be allowed to move forward. The court denied a legal challenge by the government, noting that the denial of drivers’ licenses to grantees of the federal government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA is a federal program that offers “deferred action” – a temporary protection from deportation to immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

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