{"id":609389,"date":"2018-08-02T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=609389"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T23:04:33","slug":"daca-back-in-court-this-month-as-texas-moves-to-end-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/08\/daca-back-in-court-this-month-as-texas-moves-to-end-program\/","title":{"rendered":"DACA back in court this month as Texas moves to end program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juli\u00e1n Aguilar \/ The Texas Tribune<\/p>

Sister Janet Gildea of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso shows her support for DACA recipients during a rally in El Paso on March 5. Several rallies were held across the country to urge lawmakers to act on DACA, including a gathering in Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/div>\n

When the state of Texas successfully halted a proposed 2014 federal immigration program to aid adult immigrants, the state’s attorneys were able to convince federal courts Texas would be irreparably harmed by the implementation of the sweeping initiative.<\/p>\n

But as the Texas attorney general\u2019s office goes to court next week in an attempt to shut down the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, that argument won\u2019t be as strong because the program has been in place for more than half a decade, attorneys with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 8, federal District Judge Andrew Hanen will hear the state’s request to have the program preliminarily halted while the issue meanders its way through the federal court system. The hearing comes nearly a year after President Donald Trump promised to end DACA in September by phasing it out over six months. But three different courts have since ruled that the administration must keep the program \u2014 which protects immigrants brought into the U.S. as children from deportation and allows them to obtain a two-year work permit \u2014 intact for now.<\/p>\n