Nine Republican-led states ask a judge to block the DACA program

Nine Republican-led states ask a judge to block the DACA program

Nine Republican-led states asked a federal judge in Texas on Tuesday to block the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a rule that provides protection to nearly 600,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. and that they are known as “dreamers” or “dreamers”.

It is the latest move in an ongoing legal fight over the Barack Obama-era program and represents another threat to the hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries who have been able to live and work in the United States legally.

The administration of President Joe Biden published a rule last year to “preserve and strengthen” the DACA program, largely maintaining the program’s criteria. The regulation was published while litigation over previous memos related to the program was ongoing.

A few months later, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit largely upheld a district court ruling that found DACA illegal, but sent the case back to lower court to decide the legality of the new rule that strengthens the program.

On Tuesday, Republican-led states called the rule “illegal” and called for it to be blocked.