The 5th Circuit of Appeals has announced a date for oral arguments in a case that could end the DACA program — an Obama-era initiative that gave hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids temporary relief from deportation.
The appeals court is set to hear oral arguments a little over a month from now, on Oct. 10. It’s the latest in a years-long fight over the Obama program’s future — and it's the second time in four years that the case could head to the Supreme Court.
More than 850,000 people have been able to get a work permit and protection from deportation under DACA since its creation in 2012, but it’s been in legal limbo for years.
The Trump administration moved to cancel the program in 2017 and it was saved in a Supreme Court ruling in 2020 — though new applicants have been barred since 2021.
Now, another case originally filed in Texas against DACA is being heard in the appeals court — where judges will decide whether the Biden administration’s version of the program is legal.
Immigrant advocate groups say in lieu of waiting for that answer, the administration should enact protections now to ensure DACA recipients aren’t vulnerable to deportation.
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Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials say they’ve made headway on a processing backlog that reached a high point in 2020. -
In the past, Mexico has accepted deportees from the U.S. who aren’t Mexican citizens. But Mexico’s president says if President-elect Donald Trump carries out his mass deportation plan, she wants to only take Mexican deportees. -
Preliminary numbers reported by the AP show Border Patrol agents made 46,700 arrests in November. It marks a more than 80% decrease from a spike in arrests border-wide last December — including as many as 19,000 a week in the Tucson Sector. -
Days after taking office in 2017, President-elect Donald Trump ordered the Border Patrol to add 5,000 agents. By the time he left four years later, the Border Patrol had actually shrunk by 1,084 agents, records from Customs and Border Protection show. -
The Mexican president reiterated Monday that the two had a productive phone call, a few days after the U.S. president-elect threatened 25% tariffs on goods imported from its southern neighbor.
