Immigration Debate Shifts To Texas Judge Who Blocked 2015 DACA Expansion

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August 8th, 2018

Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA), gay activists and others demonstrate outside the U.S. District Court 9th Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., in May. The Trump administration has been trying to convince courts that it is justified in ending an Obama-era immigration policy that shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from … Continued

Reed Saxon / AP

Updated at 6:40 p.m. ET

In a federal courtroom in Texas today, the debate over the Trump administration’s immigration policies shifted from separated families to another group of young immigrants.

They are the ones who were brought to the United States as children and grew up here. About 700,000 young people were protected from deportation under the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

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