After Texas Court Ruling, What’s the Future for Young Immigrants and DACA Recipients?

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🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. are in limbo, after a Texas judge ruled on Friday that former President Barack Obama illegally launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012. The ruling does not end legal protections for the roughly 650,000 current DACA participants who came to the United States as children and who are not residents or citizens. However the legal decision does suspend approvals of new applications and leaves open the door for DACA to end in the future. President Biden has already pledged to appeal the ruling and called on Congress to protect so-called Dreamers and create a path to citizenship for millions of people who lack legal status in the United States. In this hour, we get an overview of the legal decision and what happens next and also hear from immigrants and families who could be hurt by this decision, now and in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.9	Coming up on forum, a federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that former President Obama illegally launched the
0:55.4	Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program in 2012.
1:00.9	DACA shields from deportation, immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children,
1:06.0	and enables them to work.
1:07.8	In this hour, we look at what the ruling means and what happens next and get a sense
1:12.6	of how it's impacted the lives of some of the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients and applicants.
1:17.6	Forum is next'm Mina Kim.
1:35.4	Tens of thousands of DACA applicants are now in limbo, and more than 600,000 current DACA recipients are experiencing the strain of having a program that allowed them to stay in the U.S. and work declared unlawful.
1:49.0	On Friday, a federal judge in Texas ruled that President Obama illegally launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012,
1:58.0	which protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation.
2:03.2	For more on the consequences of Friday's decision, we're joined by Tom K. Wong,
2:07.8	Associate Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego.
2:15.3	Wong also served as an advisor to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders under the Obama administration. Welcome, Tom K. Wong.
2:26.6	Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm glad to have you with us, Tom. And can you tell us what Judge Andrew Hannon used as the basis for his ruling
2:35.2	that DACA was unlawful on Friday?
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