No Ruling After DACA Hearing

In Houston, a federal judge didn’t immediately issue a ruling following a court hearing on a U.S. program’s fate shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. During a nearly 3 1/2 hour hearing, this week, Texas and eight other states asked U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which provides limited protections to about 650,000 people. Former President Barack Obama enacted the program in 2012. Defending the program is a group of DACA recipients represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.