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Al Jazeera
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Jihan Abdalla

US ‘Dreamers’ demand action as court ruling fuels uncertainty

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, also known as DACA, shields hundreds of thousands of people brought to the US as children from deportation [File: J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]

Washington, DC – Chanting “home is here” outside the US Capitol building, dozens of migrants who came to the United States as children and their supporters have called on lawmakers to protect a programme that shields them from deportation.

The protest on Thursday came just hours after a US appeals court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that deemed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme “unlawful” – and leaving the scheme’s future uncertain.

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