COLO. COLLEGES ASK COURT TO PROTECT DACA

More than 150 universities joined an amicus brief filed Friday in the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obamaera program that has allowed about 17,000 Coloradans and hundreds of thousands of others brought to the country illegally as children to have a legal presence.

Among the hundreds that joined, five Colorado institutions signed on to the brief, which was organized by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.

They are Colorado Mountain College, the Colorado State University system, Metropolitan State University, the University of Colorado system and the University of Denver, according to a Tuesday news release.

Regis University also joined an amicus brief from the American College of Education urging the court to support DACA students, university officials said.

DACA was rescinded by the Trump administration on Sept. 5, 2017.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Nov. 12 and determine whether the administration’s rescission of DACA was lawful, the news release said. — Elizabeth