Immigration court rules DACA is no longer an automatic block to deporting ‘Dreamers’

Ana Maria Rus

Having DACA status is no longer an automatic blockade on being deported, the Board of Immigration Appeals has ruled, tossing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant “Dreamers” into a new and more complicated situation. The BIA, a part of the Justice Department, ordered immigration judges to weigh all the factors in a deportation case, going beyond the mere fact that a migrant had been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The BIA overturned a lower judge’s ruling that had