Dreamer Said to Be Targeted by Feds Takes DACA Case to 9th Cir.

A former DACA recipient whom a federal judge said was the target of an apparent “three-year vendetta” by the Homeland Security Department is bringing his case to the Ninth Circuit.

Daniel Ramirez Medina originally had his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program benefits revoked for suspected gang activity, but successfully got that decision overturned twice in federal court.

In October, however, Judge Ricardo S. Martinez of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington reluctantly held that he lacked authority to overturn the DHS’s decision not to grant Ramirez’s DACA renewal application. Martinez did so after slamming the ...