Court to Weigh Protections for Immigrants Brought to U.S. as Children

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has enabled beneficiaries to build lives and careers in the United States.
57% : Beneficiaries of DACA were typically teenagers when they first received the status.
49% : The Fifth Circuit has already pared back DACA in the past, upholding a lower-court ruling in a different case that barred the Department of Homeland Security from accepting new DACA applications.
48% : The Justice Department is defending DACA, joined by a host of other parties, including the State of New Jersey and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
48% : The tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft are backing the effort to preserve DACA, too, noting that the program's recipients benefit the economy and arguing that presidents have the power to defer the enforcement of immigration laws.
48% : Since DACA took effect 12 years ago, some 800,000 people have registered and a vast majority have renewed.
46% : "Since 2022, about 100,000 undocumented students have graduated high school annually without being enrolled in DACA.
44% : The current lawsuit over DACA, filed in 2018 by Texas and six other Republican-controlled states, argues that the creation of the program represented an overreach of presidential authority and imposed undue costs on the states.
44% : But, in September 2023, he held that DACA was still unlawful, prompting the appeal that the three-judge panel will consider this week in New Orleans.
43% : The judges hearing the DACA challenge will consider three questions -- whether the plaintiff states have shown that the program actually costs the states money; whether the Biden administration was acting within its authority in 2022 when it sought to "preserve and fortify" DACA with a formal rule; and whether the trial court, which blocked new applicants to the program nationwide, should have limited its ruling to the seven states that sued.
40% : The legal fight over DACA comes as the politics around immigration are far more polarized than when the program began.
30% : The states said in a brief filed earlier this year that "because presidents cannot unilaterally override duly enacted statutes, DACA remains illegal.
26% : Then, in 2017, the Trump moved to kill DACA, under the premise that it went outside the executive branch's constitutional powers.
23% : A federal judge in Texas, Andrew S. Hanen, ruled in 2021 that DACA was unlawful, saying that President Obama, in creating DACA, had exceeded his authority and run afoul of procedures for new regulations.

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