Roughly 580,000 DACA recipients can continue to renew their DACA status every two years. The program remains closed only for new applicants.
The ruling was"deeply upsetting," Areli Hernandez, a longtime DACA recipient from Los Angeles and the director of executive affairs at the immigrant rights organizationFormer DACA recipient Bruna Sollod, a senior political director at, the country’s largest immigrant youth-led organization, said: “Imagine hundreds of thousands of young people who have jobs right now, have mortgages, car payments, small businesses and clients that rely on them.
“I don’t know what else we need to say to make elected officials and the Biden administration understand the threat that we are facing,” Sollod said.as the six-year court battle continues to play out in courts after legal challenges from the Trump administration and nine Republican-led states seeking to fully end DACA.Does this actually mean DACA is illegal?580,000 current recipientsWhile Hanen, whom President George W.
The latest ruling"continues to allow DACA recipients to file renewal applications while the case is pending appeal,” said Andrea Senteno, the regional counsel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, better known as MALDEF.MALDEF has been representing 22 DACA recipients since 2018 in the legal challenge brought by the Republican-led states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
"Sometimes people fall out of the DACA status because they don’t renew on time due to finances or due to the inability to access the correct legal resources," Hernandez said."Unfortunately, this decision from Judge Hanen also affects those who were not able to renew their DACA with sufficient time."
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