Appeals court weighs fate of DACA protections for 500,000 “Dreamers”
A federal appeals court on Thursday weighed the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, the Obama-era program that currently allows more than half a million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the country without fear of deportation. Enacted in 2012 to protect a