A coalition of civil rights and immigration service organizations have sued the Trump administration for unlawfully freezing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant funding. Executive Order 14159 directed DHS to freeze all funding to organizations that support or provide services to noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents and asylum seekers. Plaintiffs provide citizenship and naturalization assistance and representation for lawful permanent residents looking to become U.S. citizens, and they rely on congressionally-appropriated DHS grants. Plaintiffs argue that DHS’s broad and arbitrary decision to suspend all grants violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Homeland Security Act, federal regulations, the separation of powers, the First Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause.
