正如承诺的那样，拜登政府正在挑战得克萨斯州的一项裁决，即“推迟儿童入境行动”或“DACA”计划是非法的。
美国司法部周五向第五巡回上诉法院提交了一份通知，要求启动推翻美国地方法院法官安德鲁·哈宁(Andrew Hanen)的裁决的程序，该裁决支持以得克萨斯州为首的九个州，这些州认为创建DACA计划违反了联邦行政法。
哈恩的决定阻止政府批准任何未来的DACA申请，但不影响申请延期或裁决时的“梦想家”(该计划中的人通常被称为“梦想家”)。
当这项裁决在7月份发布时，乔·拜登总统承诺他的政府将对这一裁决提出上诉，他在一份声明中说，“虽然法院的命令现在不影响目前的DACA接受者，但这一裁决仍然将数十万年轻移民置于不确定的未来。”
DACA是奥巴马政府在2012年创建的，作为16岁以下无证移民来美国获得工作许可和两年内避免被驱逐出境的一种方式。受助人可每两年申请续期一次。根据美国公民和移民服务部的数据，截至3月份，美国大约有61.6万名活跃的DACA接收人。
国土安全部继续接受DACA的申请，但根据裁决，它不能批准任何新的DACA申请。
除了司法部，墨西哥裔美国人法律辩护和教育基金，一个非盈利的拉丁裔合法民权组织，也代表22名DACA获奖者提起上诉。
该组织主席兼总法律顾问托马斯·萨恩斯(Thomas A. Saenz)周五在一份声明中表示:“国会一直未能采取行动为DACA接收人提供永久保护和获得公民身份的途径，这使得有必要向第五巡回上诉法院提起上诉。”。“上诉成功有很强的法律依据，因为哈宁法官没有解释最近该案几个关键要素的法律变化。”
国会收到了来自拜登、副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯和民主党议员的压力，要求为“梦想家”创造一条获得公民身份的法律途径，随着案件进入上诉程序，这种压力可能会越来越大。
As promised, Biden administration appeals Texas ruling making DACA unlawful
As promised, the Biden administration is challenging a Texas ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program is unlawful.
The Department of Justice filed a notice in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to start the process to overturn the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen in favor of nine states led by Texas that found the creation of the DACA program violated federal administrative law.
Hanen’s decision prevents the government from granting any future DACA applications but does not affect application renewals or those who were "Dreamers" -- as those in the program are often called -- at the time of the ruling.
When the ruling was issued in July, President Joe Biden promised his administration would appeal the decision, saying in a statement that, "while the court’s order does not now affect current DACA recipients, this decision nonetheless relegates hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to an uncertain future."
DACA was created in 2012 by the Obama administration as a way for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. under the age of 16 to get authorized to work and avoid deportation for two years. Recipients can apply for renewal every two years. There are about 616,000 active DACA recipients in the U.S. as of March, according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services.
The Department of Homeland Security has continued to accept DACA applications, but in accordance with the ruling, it cannot grant any new DACA requests.
Along with the Department of Justice, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a nonprofit Latino legal civil rights organization, also filed an appeal on behalf of 22 DACA recipients.
"The ongoing failure of the Congress to act to provide permanent protection and a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients necessitates the filing of this appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals," Thomas A. Saenz, the organization’s president and general counsel, said in a statement Friday. "There are strong legal grounds for a successful appeal because Judge Hanen failed to account for recent changes in the law governing several critical elements of the case."
Congress has received pressure from Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic lawmakers to create a legal pathway to citizenship for "Dreamers," and that pressure is likely to build as the case makes its way through the appeals process.
