Former Pres. Barack Obama on DACA ruling: 'It’s long past time for Congress to act and give them the protection and certainty they deserve.'
The program protects undocumented persons who entered the U.S. when they were younger than 16 years old.President Joe Biden said it's"deeply disappointing" that a federal judge in Texas has ruled the, or DACA, program as unlawful, and said the Department of Justice will appeal the decision.
The Friday ruling marks a significant blow to the Obama-era approach that shielded young people brought to the country illegally from deportation.DACA demonstrators hold their fists in the air while kneeling outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, June 18, 2020. "For more than nine years, DREAMers have watched courts and politicians debate whether they’ll be allowed to stay in the only country many of them have ever known," he said in aDACA was created byin 2012 to provide relief for the growing population of undocumented immigrant minors, sometimes called Dreamers, who had little to no say in their immigration process due to their youth.
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