New DACA Applications Marked As ‘Pending’

PHOENIX (AP) – A government lawyer says all new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications are being put in a pending bucket while officials decide whether to end the program. That means no new applicants have been accepted into the program for young immigrants even though the Supreme Court ruled it was improperly ended last month. Immigrant rights attorneys say the Supreme Court ruling and two others should revert the program that gives work permits to younger immigrants and shields them from deportation to its original form. About 650,000 are enrolled in DACA, but it’s estimated that another 66,000 now meet age requirements to join, if the government allows them to.