Feds Seek to Toss DACA Challenge, Say Regulations Make Case Moot

States’ legal arguments against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be moot after the government’s new regulations take effect, the Biden administration told a federal appeals court.

The government’s brief, filed Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, responded to the court’s directive that the administration and GOP-led states suing over the 10-year-old immigration policy file supplemental briefings in light of the new regulations.

The appeals court, which heard oral arguments July 6, is considering arguments over the legality of DACA.

The program, established by the Obama administration in 2012, allows some 600,000 ...