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Texas and eight other Republican-led states will ask a federal court on Tuesday to rule the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful, posing a fresh threat to the Obama-era program offering deportation protections to young immigrants that has been the subject of legal battles for the past few years.

The Trump administration first attempted to end the program, known as DACA, in September 2017, but it was blocked by federal courts. The Supreme Court ruled in June that it hadnt taken the proper steps to do so, and after several additional months of legal wrangling, the government began accepting new applications for the program for the first time in more than three years.

DACA, introduced in 2012, offers temporary protections to any immigrants in the country without legal authorization who were 30 or younger when the program was announced. President Obama created the program to protect these young immigrants, known as Dreamers, after their namesake bill the Dream Actwhich would have provided them a path to citizenshipfailed to pass Congress in 2010.

The years of legal and political fighting over the program, which has become a flashpoint in the larger debate over immigration reform, have created a sense of whiplash for the 640,000 young immigrants who depend on the program for work permits and protections against deportation. President-elect Joe Biden has said he will fully reinstate the program, while conservative states fight to overturn ita mirror image of the fight throughout President Trumps term in office, when the White House sought to end its protections but was met with court challenges by states to preserve them.

Juan Carlos Cerda and his fiance, Juana, both Dreamers, are accustomed to their immigration status disrupting their lives. For the past year, they have wanted to buy a home together, but struggled to find a lender willing to make them a loan. On Saturday, they finally moved into that homea two-story brick house in Fort Worth, Texas.

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