High Court’s Social Media Standing Ruling Raised in DACA Defense

A Supreme Court decision this week involving federal curbs on misinformation on social media sites bolsters the case for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a civil rights group told a federal appeals court.

The legal battle over DACA, which grants removal protections and work permits to unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children, is back before the conservative US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The program was seen as having a tough path forward at the appeals court, which previously ruled DACA unlawful.

New applications to DACA have been frozen since a 2021 ruling in the ...