'Limbo of DACA' weighs heavy on hundreds of thousands of eligible youths left out of the program
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June 15, 2023, 6:30 AM EDT
By Nicole Acevedo
Hundreds of thousands of DACA-eligible people have been shut out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has helped young immigrants access better-paying jobs and educational opportunities and protected them from deportation.
On Thursday, as DACA marked its 11th anniversary, the fate of the program remained up in the air as a six-year court battle plays out following legal challenges from the Trump administration and Republican-led states seeking to fully end it.
In 2021, a federal judge in Texas decided to leave DACA open for current recipients and blocked new applicants from accessing the program.
Since then, an estimated 400,000 people who would have been eligible to apply for the first time haven’t had access to the program, according to an analysis by FWD.us, a bipartisan group supporting immigration reform.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/daca-court-challenges-block-hundreds-thousands-eligible-youth-rcna89063
