Federal Appeals Court DACA Ruling Leaves Dreamers in Limbo

More than 600,000 immigrants brought into the US illegally as children face yet another restart in their long-running legal battle to decide if the program that keeps them from being kicked out of the country was created legally.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled a challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects certain young immigrants from deportation and provides them work permits, must go back for a new review by a lower court.

Critics claim then-President Barack Obama overstepped his authority when he created the program in 2012 out of frustration with Congressional inaction. The ...