By Dareh GregorianNBC
News
A federal judge in Texas extended an order this Friday that temporarily allows hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to continue working and studying in the United States without fear of being deported.
Houston-based District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled last year that DACA—implemented in 2012 by Barack Obama—was illegal.
However, he allowed it to remain intact while defense attorneys appealed his ruling.
In a decision last week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals returned the case to Hanen and said it was up to that judge to consider a new proposal from the Biden Administration, with which the White House seeks to iron out the program to strengthen protections. of the
dreamers
.
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That new DACA program proposed by Biden
will go into effect on October 31.
In his ruling Friday, Hanen said he would allow the Department of Homeland Security to grant benefit renewals to those
Dreamers
already enrolled in the program, but prevent the agency from "granting DACA status to any new applicants."
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