By City News Service
Jul 17, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Immigrant rights organizations and others in the Southland blasted a ruling today by a federal judge in Texas which determined that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals the Obama-era program shielding certain undocumented immigrants from deportation is illegal, and halted new applicants.
The ruling from Judge Andrew Hanen bars future applications, but does not immediately cancel current permits for hundreds of thousands of people.
However, it again puts DACA recipients in legal limbo.
Created in 2012, DACA was intended to provide temporary relief to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children a group that called itself Dreamers.
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