By the end of 2022, there were more than 95,000 DACA recipients in Texas, the second-highest total behind California’s 165,000. | nachoaguilar
Demonstrators hold up balloons during an immigration rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status programs, near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
By the end of 2022, there were more than 95,000 DACA recipients in Texas, the second-highest total behind California’s 165,000. There are more than 580,000 in the country, according toThursday’s hearing is the latest in a yearslong effort to end the program on the claim from Texas that the policy, which began in 2012 under former President Obama, was unlawfully put into place.
“We will be arguing to Judge Hanen that neither Texas nor any of the other states challenging DACA have standing to sue, meaning they have not identified any injury that comes to them as a result of DACA recipients living in their states,” she said. “That means that they can't come to court and bring a case because you have to have standing in order to sue.”
There is also another important note to make on Thursday’s proceedings. Paxton was suspended from his official duties after the Texas House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to impeach him on findings that he abused his office and committed bribery – among other alleged crimes – to benefit a donor.former Texas Secretary of State John Scott as interim attorney general. But it’s unclear what direct role, if any, he’ll play in ongoing litigation.
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