The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation, was turned into a federal rule by the Biden Administration on Wednesday.
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The proposed rule doesn't change how the program works or who is eligible, but it supersedes the 2012 memo by the DHS Secretary that originally created the program.
The goal is to protect and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has been the subject of lawsuits from Republican-led states for years.
A legal challenge from Texas caused federal Judge Andrew Hanen to stop allowing new people to enroll in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last year.
614,270. Data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services shows how many people were Enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is a program that gives temporary deportation relief and work authorization to people who were brought to the US before they were 16. The program is broadly popular but politically contentious, and its legal status has often been precarious because it is an executive action. The Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that the White House failed to follow proper procedures when it revoked the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Biden Administration is appealing Hanen's decision to cut off new applicants from the program.
On Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called on Congress to codify into federal law protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients. Efforts to offer legal protections and a path to citizenship for those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have been put on hold.
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