[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Scheme shields 600,000 'dreamer' migrants in U.S. illegally from deportation
- 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Obama did not have authority for plan
- The White House is now planning a legal challenge to keep the plan in place
The Biden administration issued a revision to DACA in August that is preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought into the U.S. as children.
But the new court ruling requires a lower court to review those revisions – and barred new applicants from applying to the program.
There were 611,270 people enrolled in DACA at the end of March. A large number of those enrolled in the program – 494,350 people or 81 percent of the total – are from Mexico. Large numbers of the remaining total are Dreamers are from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and South Korea.