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Protesters hold up signs during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Federal judge rules Biden’s revised DACA policy illegal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Revised DACA program to be debated before Texas judge who previously ruled against it

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 15, 2022. The fate of DACA, a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children, was set for Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, to again be in front of a federal judge who has previously declared it illegal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

DACA program’s fate again before judge who ruled it illegal

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Immigrant youth and advocates rally to the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton on the day of the Supreme Court's hearing on DACA in Austin, Texas, in this July 2019 photo. (Lola Gomez/Austin American-Statesman via AP) **FILE**

DHS admits approving DACA applications in violation of court order

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Judge orders end to DACA, current enrollees safe for now

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No ruling in case deciding fate of DACA immigration program

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In this Nov. 12, 2019, file photo people rally outside the Supreme Court over President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), at the Supreme Court in Washington. A Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 federal court hearing in Houston over a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children highlights the peril the program still faces even under an incoming Democratic president who has pledged to protect it. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

No immediate ruling after hearing on fate of DACA program

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Demonstrator Gina Dusterhoft holds up a sign as she walks to join others standing across the street from the federal courthouse in Houston, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, before a hearing in federal court involving drive-thru ballots cast in Harris County. The lawsuit was brought by conservative Texas activists, who have railed against expanded voting access in Harris County, in an effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston because the ballots were cast at drive-thru polling centers established during the pandemic. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Judge rejects GOP effort to throw out 127,000 Houston votes

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Federal judge denies states’ request to end DACA

By ASTRID GALVAN and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

The Latest: DACA hearing focuses on judge’s prior ruling

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients Indira Nicole Marquez Robles, 18, left, Damaris Gonzalez, 34, and United We Dream youths and allies chant &quot;Here to Stay&quot; to the media after a court hearing in lawsuit filed by states challenging DACA program at the United States District Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Judge who overturned other Obama program hears DACA case

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington. (Associated Press)

Justice Department lawyers to take remedial ethics classes after misleading judge in amnesty case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Justice Dept. objects to judge’s order for ethics classes, disclosure of immigrant data

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Supporters of fair immigration reform gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, April 18, 2016. The Supreme Court is taking up an important dispute over immigration that could affect millions of people who are living in the country illegally. The Obama administration is asking the justices in arguments today to allow it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DHS admits it’s still violating judge’s order on immigration amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hispanic rights groups protest fed plan to revoke amnesties

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight of the department, in this April 28, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Jeh Johnson, Homeland Security chief, others ordered to court by judge

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

White House criticizes ruling on Obama’s immigration action

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2005 file photo, U.S. Southern District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, left, joins with Filemon B. Vela, Jr. and Blanca Vela for the Pledge of Allegiance during the United States Courthouse naming ceremony in Brownsville, Texas. Hanen's move to block President Barack Obama’s orders on immigration lays bare a pervasive but not widely known practice in federal district courts: venue shopping. Immigration advocates say that lawyers for the state of Texas were seeking a court with sympathetic judges when they filed their case in Brownsville. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Brad Doherty, File)

Immigration ruling shows lawyers playing venue shopping odds

By SETH ROBBINS - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 4, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama meets with a group of &quot;Dreamers&quot; in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. A federal judge temporarily blocked Obama’s executive action on immigration Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Federal judge stalls Obama’s executive action on immigration

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 24, 2013, file photo, former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos, center, exits the federal courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, after a jury found him guilty on seven counts that include racketeering, bribery and extortion. Villalobos was scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. He was among a dozen people swept up in a FBI investigation that began with former state District Judge Abel Limas. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Paul Chouy, File) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Ex-South Texas prosecutor gets 13-year prison term

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press