The legal fight over the future of the program for so-called Dreamers took another step Wednesday on an expected trip to the Supreme Court, while talk of a renewed push on immigration legislation was tempered with realism about long-standing political gridlock.
Judge Andrew Hanen, the federal judge presiding over Texas’ suit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, ruled Wednesday the program violated federal administrative law despite a new version from the Biden administration in 2021.
The program, first introduced in 2012, provides work permits and deportation relief for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors.
