Appeals court hears arguments over GOP-leaning states' suit to end DACA
A federal judge in Texas last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program dead but left it intact while his order is appealed by the Justice Department and advocacy groups.
NEW ORLEANS — Attorneys hoping to save an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of people brought into the U.S. as children told a federal appeals court Wednesday that ending the program would cruelly disrupt the lives of thousands who have grown up to become tax-paying, productive drivers of the U.S. economy.An attorney for the state of Texas, leading an effort to arrivals program, argued that DACA recipients have cost the state hundreds of millions in health
