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Texas

Despite New Trump DACA Decision, Houston Would-Be Dreamers Push Ahead With Lawsuit

Jill Ament

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From Texas Standard:Applicants to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program are facing more uncertainty after the Trump administration…

For more than a decade, Dreamers have taken to the streets to fight for protection from deportation.

Decades Of Uncertainty Continue As Trump Blocks New DACA Applicants

Elizabeth Trovall / Houston Public Media

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The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will not allow eligible immigrants to apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals if they...

DACA-recipients, educators and members of the community rally in Austin to support the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program in 2017.

Texas

Trump Administration Says It Will Reject New DACA Applications While Weighing Future Of The Program

Julian Aguilar | Texas Tribune

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The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will reject new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program despite a…

Austin

With DACA Decision Released, Recipients In Texas Breathe A Sigh Of Relief – For Now

Marisa Charpentier

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Lee esta historia en español. When recent UT Austin graduate Kevin Robles woke up Thursday morning, he checked his phone, saw the breaking news…

Activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday as the court rejected the Trump administration's move to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

News

Supreme Court Rules For DREAMers, Against Trump

Nina Totenberg

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The decision is a dramatic victory for immigration advocates and gives a new lease on life for the so-called DREAMers, immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case testing the legality of the DACA program.

DACA Recipients Look To Supreme Court For Hope

Nina Totenberg

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The Trump administration is asking the court to invalidate the program that temporarily protects from deportation some 700,000 DREAMers who were brought to the country illegally as children.

Mitchell Santos Toledo is one of 700,000 DACA recipients whose fate could be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears arguments on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program this week.

The Harvard Law Student And DREAMer Whose Fate Could Be Decided By Supreme Court

Nina Totenberg

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Mitchell Santos Toledo was brought to the U.S. when he was 2. "This is our home," he says.

People brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as DREAMers, and other supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program listen as lawmakers speak at the U.S. Capitol.

Politics

Supreme Court Takes Up DACA Appeal

Nina Totenberg

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The high court agrees to review the Trump administration's elimination of a program designed to help children brought to the country illegally.

Politics

DACA Recipients In Central Texas Face An Uncertain Future With Trump Proposal

Andrew Weber

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President Donald Trump's Hail Mary offer to trade protections for recipients of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program for border-wall funding…

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in pending cases about the legality of the Trump administration's decision to end the DACA program.

White House Asks Supreme Court To Rule On DACA Sooner, Not Later

Camila Domonoske

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The Justice Department has asked the court to decide whether the Trump administration can dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — without waiting for rulings from lower courts.