President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration in November would have protected millions of undocumented immigrants from being deported, including some parents of U.S. citizen children. But several lawyers in Georgia say that hasn’t always been the case in the past several weeks, ever since a federal judge in Texas issued an injunction to halt parts of the president’s plan.
As a result of the judge’s ruling, lawyers say some parents who could have qualified under DAPA, a deferred action program for parents of Americans, are now being deported.
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