A federal appeals court will hear arguments on a high-stakes case that could determine whether hundreds of thousands of people will lose their ability to work and remain in the United States.
On Oct. 10, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will revisit the case challenging Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which since 2012 has shielded more than 830,000 people who came to the United States illegally as children from deportation and provided them with renewable work permits.
The prolonged legal battle over the fate of DACA, which was promulgated through executive action by President Barack Obama and never approved by Congress, dated back to 2018 when Texas and eight other Republican-led states filed a lawsuit, arguing that the Obama administration had overstepped its authority to create an immigration program without congressional consent….