Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program

A group of more than 50 community activists and others gathered Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, at a park next to the federal courthouse in Houston, in support of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. Earlier Friday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen said during a court hearing the policy, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, can continue with limitations that he previously set while he reviews new regulations for the program. (AP Photo/Juan A. Lozano)

Judge rules new DACA program can continue temporarily

A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily.
October 14, 2022
Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, 36, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient who moved to the U.S. from Brazil when she was 14, poses for a portrait, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, outside her apartment in Washington. Immigrants who signed up for an Obama-era program shielding them from deportation, long a symbol of youth, are increasingly easing into middle age. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

No longer young, ‘dreamers’ uneasily watch a legal challenge

September 3, 2022
Demonstrators hold up signs outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. A panel of 5th Circuit judges heard arguments on an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children. A federal judge in Texas last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal — although he agreed to leave the program intact for those already benefiting from it while his order is appeal. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

Appeals arguments heard on immigrants brought to US as kids

July 7, 2022
FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2021 file photo, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The Biden administration on Monday renewed efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a long-running drama over the policy's legality. Mayorkas called again on Monday for Congress to act swiftly to provide “the legal status they need and deserve.” He said legislation should be enacted through spending negotiations, a tactic that suffered a potentially critical blow this month when the Senate parliamentarian prohibited it. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden rule to shield ‘Dreamers’ seeks to bypass Congress

September 27, 2021
Samuel Alfaro, pauses between responses during an interview at his home in Houston, Texas, Friday, July 23, 2021. Alfaro said his appointment to help obtain deferred action for childhood arrival or DACA immigration status was canceled due to a recent federal court ruling against the program. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)

Ruling leaves immigrants who newly applied for DACA in limbo

July 23, 2021

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President Joe Biden walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 16, 2021, to spend the weekend at Camp David. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden pledges appeal of ‘deeply disappointing’ DACA ruling

July 17, 2021
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015 file photo, Mercedes Herrera and others chant during an event on DACA and DAPA Immigration Relief at the Houston International Trade Center in Houston. A federal judge in Texas on Friday, July 16, 2021 ordered an end to an Obama-era program that prevented the deportations of some immigrants brought into the United States as children, putting new pressure for action on President Joe Biden and Democrats who now control Congress. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

‘A blaring siren’ for Democrats after ruling halts DACA

July 17, 2021
Jesus Lopez, who was deported from the U.S. in 2020, poses at his family's carpentry workshop in Zapopan, Jalisco state, Mexico, Thursday, May 13, 2021. He's from Guadalajara, Mexico, but his life was in Chicago. After 15 years in the city, he was deported a year ago during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Refugio Ruiz)

Advocates in US push new efforts to bring back deportees

May 29, 2021

South Dakota business groups call for immigration reforms

May 19, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks on updated guidance on face mask mandates and COVID-19 response, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 13, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to meet DACA recipients in immigration overhaul push

May 13, 2021
FILE - In this June 18, 2020, file photo, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. A federal judge did not immediately rule Tuesday, March 30, 2021, on a closely watched case over the fate of the DACA program, which confers limited protections on hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the U.S. as children. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen set an early April deadline for lawyers on both sides to provide more information. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

No ruling in case deciding fate of DACA immigration program

March 30, 2021
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2019, file photo 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. A Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 federal court hearing in Houston over a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children highlights the peril the program still faces even under an incoming Democratic president who has pledged to protect it. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

No immediate ruling after hearing on fate of DACA program

December 22, 2020

US fully restores protections for young immigrants

December 8, 2020
President Donald Trump leaves after speaking at a news conference at the White House, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House seeks advice of ‘torture memos’ author on powers

July 24, 2020
Deya Garcia, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, tapes up a poster in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building during a during a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the DACA program Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Phoenix. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump improperly ended the program that protects immigrants brought to the country as children and allows them to legally work, keeping the people enrolled in DACA. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Trump says he will renew effort to end DACA protections

June 19, 2020
Deya Garcia, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, tapes up a poster in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building during a during a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the DACA program Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Phoenix. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump improperly ended the program that protects immigrants brought to the country as children and allows them to legally work, keeping the people enrolled in DACA. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Young immigrants land court win but still face uncertainty

June 19, 2020
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students gather in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections

June 19, 2020
FILE--In this Friday, June 14, 2019, file photograph, Colorado Governor Jared Polis prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Colorado Rockies host the San Diego Padres in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado governor vows to fight for DACA recipients

November 14, 2019
DACA recipients and others leave the Supreme Court with their hands in the air after oral arguments were heard in the case of President Trump's decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, at the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Split Supreme Court appears ready to allow Trump to end DACA

November 13, 2019
FILE - In this April 5, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable on immigration and border security at the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station in Calexico, Calif. A federal judge on Friday, May 17, 2019, in California will consider a challenge to President Donald Trump's plan to tap billions of dollars from the Defense and Treasury departments to build his prized border wall with Mexico. Twenty states brought one lawsuit; the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, brought the other. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Federal appeals court rules against Trump on ending DACA

May 17, 2019

Appeals judges see delay tactics in child immigration fight

January 25, 2019

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January 22, 2019

Trump to offer immigration compromise to Democrats for wall funding: Reports

January 19, 2019
FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2018, file photo, immigration advocates hold a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation and that President Donald Trump has sought to end seems likely to survive for at least another year. That's because the Supreme Court has so far taken no action on the Trump administration's request to decide by early summer whether Trump's bid to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was legal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Supreme Court inaction suggests DACA safe for another year

January 18, 2019
FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2012 file photo, a legal immigrant reads a guide of the conditions needed to apply for Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, CHIRLA offices in Los Angeles. A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, that President Donald Trump cannot immediately end the Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously kept in place a preliminary injunction blocking Trump's decision to phase out the DACA program. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Appeals court rules against Trump on DACA immigrant policy

November 9, 2018

Judge considers Texas bid to end DACA, focusing on his prior rulings

August 8, 2018
United We Dream youths and allies snap their fingers to show support to other DACA recipients speaking to the media after a court hearing in lawsuit filed by states challenging DACA program at the United States District Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Judge who overturned other Obama program hears DACA case

August 8, 2018

Taking on the system: ‘Dreamers’ are getting law degrees

May 24, 2018
Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) and others demonstrate outside the U.S. District Court 9th Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday, May 15, 2018. The Trump administration will try to convince a U.S. appeals court that it was justified in ending an Obama-era immigration policy that shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Judges hear arguments, ask questions on immigration program

May 16, 2018

Texas suit could speed DACA’s path to Supreme Court

May 10, 2018
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Sanders was asked about North Korea, the state visit of French President Emmanuel Macron and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House condemns ruling on Trump’s ‘Dreamers’ program

April 25, 2018
FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2018, file photo, demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol Washington. A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates says the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the DACA program “was unlawful and must be set aside.” (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Judge rules against ending program to protect Dreamers

April 25, 2018

The Latest: Trump calls on Mexico to stop flow of immigrants

April 2, 2018

White House, Dem deal on immigration proved unattainable

March 22, 2018

Supreme Court declines to decide fate of ‘Dreamers’ just yet

February 27, 2018
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