Texas set to renew its court battle against DACA immigration program in Houston | Houston Public Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The hearing Thursday morning is the latest in the years-long effort by Texas and its conservative allies to end the popular program that has granted limited relief to undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.
64% : The state of Texas will be back in federal court Thursday in its latest effort to dismantle legal protections for tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants who call Texas home.
57% : "DACA is consistent with the many policies of the U.S. government in the past under different presidents," Perales said.
52% : At stake is the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which allows qualified applicants who were brought into the U.S. as children before they were 16 to receive a renewable, two-year work permit and a reprieve from deportation.
52% : "And over time, DACA simply allows the federal government to decide with respect to a particular individual that the government is going to exercise prosecutorial discretion.
48% :The other argument is that DACA is lawful according to current law as federal prosecutors have used what's known as prosecutorial discretion for years.
41% :"We will be arguing to Judge Hanen that neither Texas nor any of the other states challenging DACA have standing to sue, meaning they have not identified any injury that comes to them as a result of DACA recipients living in their states," she said.
23% : Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen, who will hear Thursday's arguments, had previously ruled that the Obama administration did not implement DACA according to federal law.

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