The clock is ticking as Democrats rest their hope for immigration reform on a technicality (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, delivers remarks on the CDC s updated guidance on mask wearing for vaccinated individuals Thursday, May 13, 2021, in the Rose Garden of the White House.
Republican officials in Texas are celebrating a major political win after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has been a GOP target since 2012 when then-President Barack Obama first created it and then in 2014 expanded it via executive action. It has faced numerous Republican-led legal challenges and subsequent court rulings as well as an outright suspension of the program during Donald Trump s administration. In spite of a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that upheld it, a new Texas federal court ruling by a known anti-immigrant judge named Andrew Hanen
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The ruling from Judge Andrew Hanen bars future applications, but does not immediately cancel current permits for hundreds of thousands of people. However, it again puts DACA recipients in legal limbo. (Shutterstock)
LOS ANGELES, CA Immigrant rights organizations and others in the Southland blasted a ruling Friday by a federal judge in Texas which determined that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals the Obama-era program shielding certain undocumented immigrants from deportation is illegal, and halted new applicants.
The ruling from Judge Andrew Hanen bars future applications, but does not immediately cancel current permits for hundreds of thousands of people. However, it again puts DACA recipients in legal limbo.
Federal judge s DACA ruling underscores the human cost of congressional inaction
Federal judge s DACA ruling underscores the human cost of congressional inaction
Posted: Jul 17, 2021 3:11 AM
Updated: Jul 17, 2021 3:11 AM
Posted By: Analysis by Maeve Reston, CNN
A federal judge in Texas dealt a searing blow to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Friday, casting their lives once again into legal limbo while underscoring the devastating human cost of Congress inability to act.
Recipients of DACA, a program created by President Barack Obama in 2012 to shield from deportation undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children, have lived in uncertainty for years as the battle over their status played out in the courts and lawmakers in Washington failed to deliver on their promise of a permanent solution.