DACA’s Viability Unchanged by New Regulations, Red States Argue

States challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program told a federal judge that regulations issued last year don’t change the legal standing of the program protecting nearly 600,000 undocumented immigrants from removal.

“To the argument that somehow this final rule is just completely different, there’s just no basis for that,” Ryan Walters, a special counsel for the state of Texas, said Thursday at oral argument in Houston over the future of the Obama-era inititative.

Legal challenges to DACA from Republican-led states threaten to upend the legal status and careers of hundreds of thousands who benefit from ...