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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8-- The University of California (UC), filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday against President Donald Trump's administration for allegedly unconstitutionally violating the rights of the University and its students by rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on "nothing more than unreasoned executive whim." The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its acting secretary, Elaine Duke, asks the court to set aside the Trump administration's rescission of DACA because it is "unconstitutional, unjust, and unlawful." This is the first legal effort by a university seeking to block the Trump administration's recently announced decision to end the DACA program, which has allowed nearly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally before age 16 to legally live, work and study in the United States. "As a result of the Defendants'actions, the Dreamers face expulsion from the only country that they call home, based on nothing more than unreasoned executive whim," the complaint reads. UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement that the step of suing the federal government was not taken lightly. "Applicants for DACA were only approved if they were in or had graduated from high school or college, or were in the military, or an honorably discharged veteran. They cannot have been convicted of a felony or major misdemeanor or otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety," according to the statement. | 
