New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - She applied for her DACA renewal in October. By June, her work authorization had lapsed. She lost her job at a healthcare clinic on the day her status expired, not because she had done anything wrong, but because the federal government had stopped processing her paperwork in anything close to normal time.

That experience, repeated across thousands of cases nationwide, is at the center of a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by two Bay Area immigrant advocacy organizations against the Trump administration. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area, both of which serve recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, are demanding the government explain why DAC...