DACA Case Returns to Fifth Circuit as Uncertainty Looms for 535,000 Recipients

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : If that happens, it would be the second time in four years that the legality of DACA is heard by the nation's highest court.
45% : While DACA protects recipients from deportation and provides work authorization, it does not offer a pathway to permanent residency or U.S. citizenship.
42% : According to the USCIS, DACA is not a lawful immigration status but rather classifies recipients as low-priority for removal.
41% : Still, it allowed current DACA recipients to continue renewing their status and sent the case back to the district court to assess the impact of a Biden administration policy that incorporated DACA into the federal regulations.
29% : In June 2020, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to preserve DACA, finding that President Donald Trump's administration had acted arbitrarily in his efforts to terminate the program.
20% : The prolonged legal battle over the fate of DACA, which was promulgated through executive action by President Barack Obama and never approved by Congress, dated back to 2018 when Texas and eight other Republican-led states filed a lawsuit, arguing that the Obama administration had overstepped its authority to create an immigration program without congressional consent.
14% : The Biden administration appealed the decision, and in October 2022, the Fifth Circuit agreed with Hanen that Obama's 2012 memo creating DACA was unlawful.

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