More than 590,000 dreamers are once again facing uncertainty due to a request from 9 Republican-led states to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Many of those affected see this request as a legal threat against the program, which since 2012 has protected from deportation more than half a million dreamers, who arrived in the country irregularly as children and are seeking temporary status to live and work in the USA, as reported by CBS News.
Dreamers have pressured Joe Biden to fulfill his commitment to provide them with a path to citizenship (since there is currently no such path) through comprehensive immigration reform, which he had promised to implement within his first 100 days in office.
Many of the hopeful promises that could be seen at the beginning of the Biden administration under his government program are fading more and more each day for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and the immigration challenges that keep coming.
This new lawsuit, led by 9 Republican states*, is the third lawsuit against DACA expected to reach the Court.
The lawsuit argues that the program is illegal and seeks to overturn it. Furthermore, it hopes that this request will abolish the program's renewal process, which allows applications every two years.
The uncertainty for thousands of migrants covered by the DACA program continues, and is further compounded by the fear of other migrants who have not yet been able to join the program due to an amendment issued by Judge Andrew Hanen, declaring DACA illegal.
No dates have yet been set for the next hearings, nor for the issuance of their final sentence, which has left almost 700 dreamers in legal limbo.
Source: Telemundo, CNN