Trump gave us DACA so it must be amazing.
[Trump gave us DACA so it must be amazing.]
Seriously........
“The policy, an executive branch memorandum, was announced by President Barack Obama on June 15, 2012. This followed a campaign by immigrants, advocates and supporters which employed a range of tactics.[3] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting applications for the program on August 15, 2012.”
“Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rescinded the expansion in June 2017, while it continued to review the existence of DACA as a whole. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced a plan to phase out DACA, triggering multiple lawsuits challenging this action. The government deferred implementation of this plan for six months to allow Congress time to pass the DREAM Act or some other legislative protection for undocumented immigrants. Congress failed to act and the time extension expired on March 5, 2018, but three separate U.S. district courts ordered an injunction preventing the phase-out of the DACA by this date, on the likelihood that the rescinding was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Separately, on August 31, 2018, district court judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas ruled that DACA is likely unconstitutional, but he let the program remain in place as litigation proceeded.[4][5] The Supreme Court, ruling on June 18, 2020 on the three injunctions blocking the rescission of the DACA, affirmed that the reasoning given for the rescission was arbitrary and capricious under the APA, but did not rule on the merits of the DACA itself nor prevent the government from issuing a new rescission with better rationale.[6]”
“On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order reinstating DACA.[7] On July 16, 2021, Andrew Hanen ruled that the program was “created in violation of the law” and “illegally implemented.” He barred the government from accepting new applications to the program, effectively cancelling Biden’s executive order. However, the ruling allows for immigrants currently protected by the program to keep their status and allow DACA renewals while the case goes through the appeals process.[8][9] An appellate court in October 2022 affirmed that DACA is “unlawful”.[10] The case was then returned to the same federal district court judge to consider whether a formal set of regulatory amendments promulgated by the Biden administration to codify DACA into federal regulations on October 31, 2022[11] made the program lawful.[12][13]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals