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The Immigration Fight That May Soon Land in the Supreme Court

A DACA ruling from a federal district judge in Texas could conflict with previous orders that have allowed the program to proceed, and, as a result, bring the issue to the Court.
Source: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

Six months. That’s how long the Trump administration gave Congress to find a legislative fix or replacement for the Obama-era program aimed at shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a phaseout of the program in September 2017.

But after many attempts and failures in Congress to pass legislation, a court ruling expected any day from a federal district judge in Brownsville, Texas, could throw the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into chaos, possibly leaving it in effect in some parts of the country and terminated in others,said David Leopold, an immigration attorney in Cleveland and

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