The University of California has filed suit on September 8 against the Trump Administration over its recent decision to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on “nothing more than unreasoned executive whim.” The university claims that this decision violates its rights, and the rights of its students. The lawsuit asks the court to set aside the administration’s decision to rescind the program.

The president of the University of California, Janet Napolitano, was formerly the Secretary of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration, and created the DACA program during her time at the department. Napolitano said, “Neither I, nor the University of California, take the step of suing the federal government lightly, especially not the very agency that I led…. To arbitrarily and capriciously end the DACA program, which benefits our country as a whole, is not only unlawful, it is contrary to our national values and bad policy.”

Napolitano wrote an op-ed for The Los Angeles Times explaining her decision to file the suit. “My anger at DACA’s rescission doesn’t stem from pride in the work done to create this program, although I am very proud of the program,” she wrote. “Instead it is motivated by the harm that eliminating DACA will cause to the so-called Dreamers at the University of California, the 10-campus system I now lead, and to the nearly 800,000 Dreamers across our country.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the University of California system “has about 4,000 undocumented students, and a ‘substantial number’ of them are protected under DACA.”

The California State Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, has also filed a lawsuit against the administration, along with the states of Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota, on September 11. This followed an earlier suit filed by fifteen states and the District of Columbia the week prior.

“Attorney General Xavier Becerra called Trump’s order ‘unlawful and mean-spirited,’ arguing it violates due process provisions of the Constitution and would hurt the economy in the nation’s most populous state,” reports Politico.

On Capitol Hill, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made a joint call for Congress to create legislation to protect those affected by the repeal of DACA. The Hill said, “Graham and Durbin, who both sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it is imperative that lawmakers act swiftly to pass the DREAM Act, a measure they have introduced that would offer legal status to individuals who received protections under DACA. The DREAM Act was first introduced in 2001 by Durbin and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).”

On Wednesday, September 13, the Democratic leaders announced that they had made an agreement with the administration to pursue legislation to create those protections in the six-month time frame before DACA is set to be repealed. The White House stated the meeting was “constructive” while Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he thought that the administration would “support enshrining the DACA protections into law.” The next day, Thursday, Trump tweeted that “no deal” had been made. By the end of the day, there were more positive statements from the White House in support of legal protections for undocumented youth in the US. “We’re working on a plan for DACA,” Trump said to reporters before leaving for Florida to survey damage from Hurricane Irma.