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- A Federal judge rejected a request from Texas and seven other states to end the DACA program, an Obama-era initiative allowing 700,000 young immigrants to stay in the US legally
- The argument brought fourth by Texas and other states claimed that DACA recipients drove up the cost of healthcare and policing, while taking jobs away from legal residents.
- The Trump administration said last September that it would halt the program within six months.
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday denied a request by Texas and other states governed by Republicans to immediately end a program launched by Democratic former President Barack Obama that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
U.S. Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas said the states had shown they were harmed by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA, but, he said, they could not prevail legally because of "their delay in pursuing the claims they now bring concerning DACA," which was first established in 2012.
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