Judge again finds DACA illegal but doesn't strike down existing protections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Esther Jeon, 28, was first brought to the U.S. from Korea when she was 3 years old and has been protected under DACA since she was a high school senior.
48% : An appellate court in 2022 had ordered Hanen to review the program again in light of the Biden administration's efforts to now codify the policy in administrative law, an issue which had been the basis of Hanen's original decision.
43% : "It's helped me to remember that there are still 10 or more million other undocumented people who have never had DACA and have found a way to be resilient and continue to live in the United States.
42% : His decision continues the limbo under which DACA has operated for two years: Current recipients can seek to renew their protections but new applicants are barred from applying.
42% : ""The court clearly saw that this program is against the law through and through," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement after Hanen's 2021 ruling.
41% : "The loss of DACA would not just mean the loss of work authorization and protection from deportation, but would be the loss of these values we should hold as county," Jeon told ABC News.
39% : U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, who issued the latest ruling, previously found DACA unlawful in 2021, leading to a protracted appeals process.
36% : Hanen had sided with the nine states in 2021, agreeing with "the hardship that the continued operation of DACA has inflicted on them.
27% : A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled -- again -- that the federal government's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal, but he refrained from taking action to remove protections for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants shielded under DACA.
6% : Under President Donald Trump, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions attempted to terminate DACA in 2017, declaring the program to be unconstitutional.

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