DACA Program

U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen has deemed DACA illegal, barring the government from approving any new applications, but leaving the program intact for existing recipients. NBC 7’s Amber Frias reports.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) an Obama-era program that has allowed nearly 800,000 young people brought into the U.S. illegally as children to avoid deportation is facing uncertainty yet again.

A San Diego County resident and DACA recipient who worked several jobs to pay his way through college achieved part of his dreams Tuesday when he graduated from San Diego State University.

Javier Diego Jacinto is daring others to dream big.

President Biden has already signed a flurry of executive orders Wednesday and is expected to sign more in the coming days and weeks ahead. NBC 7’s political reporter Priya Sridhar takes a look at what we might expect

NBC 7’s Rory Devine interviewed a DACA recipient to get her reaction to today’s ruling.

Immigration attorneys explained to NBC 7’s Mari Payton how Thursday’s ruling doesn’t mean there won’t be anymore attempts to stop DACA.

NBC 7’s Rory Devine spoke to a San Diego immigration attorney who was a plaintiff in the case against the Trump Administration that led to the Supreme Court case.

In a groundbreaking ruling, the majority of Supreme Court Justices ruled on Thursday that the Trump Administration’s move to end the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Act, better known as DACA, was not passed with proper explanation and therefore was not constitutional.

The Trump administration’s bid to end legal protections for DACA recipients was denied by the United States Supreme Court in a striking move on Thursday sending waves of elation among the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants it affected, including those in San Diego.

NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez speaks to a DACA recipient on his thoughts of the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting President Trump’s bid to end the program.