Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee are turning their focus to the status of undocumented young people as the program that’s protected more than half a million Dreamers for nearly 12 years faces an uncertain future.
New applications to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was established in 2012 via executive memorandum, have been frozen for the past three years after a federal district court judge in Texas foundthat it was unlawfully implemented.
The program covered about 530,000 active recipients at the end of 2023, about 80% of them born in Mexico, according to the most recent ...
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