DACA Program Found Unlawful in Ruling Applying Only to Texas (1)

More than half a million immigrants brought to the US as children suffered their second loss at the Fifth Circuit in two years, after the appeals court partially blocked Biden administrations rules for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that the DACA regulations are unlawful, but that a lower court’s nationwide injunction should be limited to Texas alone. It found that the state had legal standing to challenge the rules, despite recent US Supreme Court decisions that advocates said undermined that argument.

But the appeals court allowed a ...