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A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily.

The ruling allows the program to go forward, but only for current DACA recipients known as Dreamers, not new applicants.

The Biden administration has unveiled a regulation aimed at fending off legal challenges to a decade-old program that shields immigrants from deportation if they arrived as young children.

Immigrant advocates head to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday in hopes of saving an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of people brought into the U.S. as children.

The 2012 Obama-era policy opened job and educational pathways to thousands of undocumented and mainly Latino young Americans. Ten years later, its future is tenuous.

On June 15, 2012, the Obama Department of Homeland Security announced DACA, a policy stating the U.S. would no longer deport some undocumented young people who arrived here as children, and allow them to get two-year work permits. But DACA allows no path to permanent status like citizenship, and immigration activists like Jose Munoz from United We Dream are urging...

Ana Rafael’s dream to live without fear in America turned into a nightmare 10 months ago. Rafael was brought to the U.S. by her parents at the age of 6 and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, as an undocumented immigrant. She began working to legalize her status in the U.S. after receiving protection from the Obama-era Deferred Action for...

After a long ordeal being stuck in Mexico, a DACA recipient from Lowell is back home.

The Biden administration has released a plan to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation