Immigration Advocates Lament ‘More of the Same’ in New DACA Rule

Immigration advocates are taking aim at the White House and Congress, asserting the administration’s latest attempt to offer protections to undocumented young people doesn’t go far enough.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, launched in 2012 by the Obama administration, offers protection from deportation and the ability to work legally to some 600,000 undocumented people who came to the US as children. The Biden administration released a final rule Wednesday in hopes of bolstering a legal defense against an onslaught of opposition that has plagued DACA since its inception.

But the new rule, which takes effect Oct. 31, will ...