DACA program debated in appeals court, fate uncertain amid six-year legal challenge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Having DACA allowed her to get a teaching certificate and build a career in education.
55% : Supporters have long said DACA is one of the most successful policies for immigrant integration.
51% : "As we were asked to all rise, I looked to my left, I looked to my right, and I got to see all those people who once upon a time were children and today are adults and are young people with so much desire to continue to belong to their community, to the country that they have called home for a very long time," Pacheco said.
50% : Since it was put in place 12 years ago, DACA has allowed eligible young adults who came to the U.S. as children but lack legal immigration status to work and study without fear of deportation.
49% : Attorneys representing young immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, defended the legality of the program before an federal appellate court Thursday in an attempt to keep it alive -- as its fate remains uncertain amid a six-year court battle.
49% : A Supreme Court ruling kept DACA in place.
47% : But DACA remains closed to new applicants.
45% : At the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, three appellate judges heard arguments over recent efforts by the Biden administration to turn DACA into a federal regulation, hoping to increase the program's chances of surviving legal challenges in the future.
45% : The court may dismiss the case, refer it back to the lower court or rule against DACA, which could then be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
34% : Though Trump wasn't able to end DACA when he was president, lawsuits from Republican states have limited its expansion.
33% : A federal judge in Texas has ruled that DACA is illegal multiple times over the years but has refrained from fully terminating it.

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