Immigrants brought to the US as children ask judges to keep protections against deportation

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children were among more than 200 demonstrators who gathered outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans where appellate judges heard arguments over a policy shielding them from deportation. At stake in the case that a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard Thursday is the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have long-established lives in the U.S. The policy is called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Texas and eight other states are challenging the policy. It began under former President Barack Obama and is being defended by President Joe Biden’s administration.