Boston Police Commissioner Joins Legal Effort to Protect ‘Dreamers’

Joshua Geltzer was quoted in the Boston Globe regarding the lawsuit seeking to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy:

“Part of the current rhetoric coming from the federal government, particularly the attorney general and the Justice Department, is that cracking down on programs like DACA . . . is somehow supposed to be a public safety boost,” said Joshua Geltzer, executive director of Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, who coauthored the brief with a Chicago law firm representing the signatories. “That’s just not what the studies show, and it’s not what the people who really do that job —rather than engage in politics talking about doing that job — say.”