Federal Judge Again Declares That DACA is Illegal With Issue Likely

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Congress has failed multiple times to pass proposals called the DREAM Act to protect DACA recipients.
52% : There were 578,680 people enrolled in DACA at the end of March, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
50% : In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration improperly ended DACA, allowing it to stay in place.
49% : FILE - People rally outside the Supreme Court over President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), at the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 12, 2019.
48% : "Hanen's order extended the current injunction that had been in place against DACA, which barred the government from approving any new applications, but left the program intact for existing recipients during the ongoing legal review.
47% : U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen agreed with Texas and eight other states suing to stop the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
47% : "We continue to urge Congress and President Biden to create permanent solutions for all immigrants to ensure none are left in the perilous road DACA has been on for the past decade," Veronica Garcia, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, an advocacy organization, said in a statement.
33% : The Biden administration tried to satisfy Hanen's concerns with a new version of DACA that took effect in October 2022 and was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process.
32% : Hanen had previously said DACA was unconstitutional.
29% : In 2022, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld Hanen's earlier ruling declaring DACA illegal, but sent the case back to him to review changes made to the program by the Biden administration.
11% : But Hanen, who was appointed by then-President George W. Bush in 2002, ruled the updated version of DACA was still illegal as the Biden administration's new version was essentially the same as the old version, started under the Obama administration.

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