A recent comment from a federal official urging some DACA recipients to “self‑deport” has sparked fear and uncertainty among thousands of families in Texas — home to one of the largest DACA populations in the country.

FIEL, a Houston-based immigrant advocacy organization, held a press conference Thursday to raise awareness about a growing problem: Fraudulent legal advice related to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

In the face of ongoing political and legal challenges surrounding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Houston resident Eliana Muñoz is sharing her journey as a Dreamer to highlight the human impact of the program and what could happen if it’s revoked.

Trump's promise of mass deportations is a fact, but the full costs and legal fallout, especially for Texas, remain uncertain.

Houstonians are always representing our city well, and that’ll once again ring true during Thursday evening's State of the Union address. #DreamBig #SupportDreamers #StateOfTheUnion2024 #DACA

A policy designed to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation has again been declared illegal by a federal court judge. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was created by Pres. Barack Obama in 2012 and has been under legal fire for years. A judge ruled the policy illegal because it circumvents immigration law set by Congress.

A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

A Houston father and DACA recipient returned home after he was stuck in Mexico for nearly six months, officials said.

FIEL spokespeople and families affected by DACA gathered at the organization’s headquarters Tuesday morning to announce their trip to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans Wednesday.

Just last month, the Biden administration moved to publish a federal rule to protect Dreamers, children brought to the US illegally by their migrant parents. Currently, the Department of Homeland Security is not accepting new DACA applications, to comply with a federal court ruling.

Immigrant youth and allies from the United We Dream plan held a press conference during its rally outside the U.S. District Court Monday in downtown Houston following the Texas v. U.S. ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered an end to an Obama-era program that prevented the deportations of some immigrants brought into the United States as children, putting new pressure for action on President Joe Biden and Democrats who now control Congress.

Former President Donald Trump plans on touring Texas’ southern border with Gov. Greg Abbott later this month.

HOUSTON – Many Houston-area immigration advocates and families are hopeful President Joe Biden can enact sweeping immigration reforms. Cloud, who is in favor of immigration reform, is talking about backlogs in immigration court and with U.S. AdFoster has worked with Republican and Democratic administrations on immigration reform. These types of legal challenges are why immigration advocates are only cautiously optimistic about reform. Plus, many remember pledges for immigration reform from President Barack Obama that never came to fruition.

HOUSTON – It is seen as a major victory for more than 640,000 “Dreamers” who can now apply for deferred action through DACA. Now, a mother of two little girls herself, she is relieved DACA was reinstated. She can now apply for the DACA program and once approved, she will receive a work permit and a two-year deferral on deportation. He said the DACA program has made that possible. Damaris Gonzalez, with the Texas Organizing Project, said that DACA being reinstated is just the first step.

The announcement is still a major victory for young people who have been unable to apply since Trump ended DACA in September 2017. His administration has long argued that DACA is unconstitutional. DACA shields about 650,000 people from deportation and makes them eligible for work permits. DACA recipients and their supporters greeted the news with a mix of elation and awareness that their futures are precarious, even with Biden's support. Her younger brother, now 16, is in high school and plans to eventually seek DACA protection as well.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in May. Credit: REUTERS/Graeme SloanIf civil and immigrant rights groups need a reminder of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's impact on immigration law, they don’t need to think back further than a few months ago. It would be his third successful appointment of a conservative justice and could tilt the balance of the court for decades. Saenz said those decisions are challengeable and could head to the U.S. Supreme Court because Wolf was not qualified to hold his position, according to the Government Accountability Office. That case, Leocal v. Ashcroft, eliminated driving while intoxicated from the list of crimes that blocked deported immigrants from naturalization.

Roughly 66,000 more would be eligible if new applications were accepted because they met the age requirement — 15 — after the Trump administration tried to end the program in 2017, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. The administration’s monthlong silence had unnerved many DACA recipients and those who wanted to join. “It’s infuriating that we continue to be the punching bag for the administration,” she said of fellow DACA recipients. Trump has tried unsuccessfully to work with Congress on a broader immigration package that would couple DACA with tougher enforcement measures. “We’re going to work with a lot of people on DACA,” Trump told reporters.

HOUSTON Immigrant-led civil rights organization, FIEL, has filed a lawsuit filed against President Donald Trumps administration that claims the administration isnt allowing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applicants to apply to the program weeks after the Supreme Court upheld it. Raed Gonzalez, the attorney handling the class action lawsuit, said he is asking the court to take action to allow DACA applications to be processed in a timely manner. Gonzalez said there was a mandate that said the DACA program was unlawfully canceled. That means the government is preventing new applicants from applying and not upholding the Supreme Courts decisions, Gonzalez said. Espinosa and Gonzalez are encouraging anyone who wants to learn more about the FIEL, the lawsuit or to participate in the lawsuit, to reach out to FIEL Houston or to Raed Gonzalezs law firm.

It means that, for now, DACA recipients can continue to renew their status, to work and go to school here in the U.S. Non-profit organization, Immigrants Like Us, is aimed at helping Dreamers renew their status online and for free. Dania said renewing her DACA status was an added stressor. The program helps Dreamers renew their status online and for free. The non-profit can also help with naturalization applications, as well as, green card forms.

PHOENIX President Donald Trump says he will renew his administration's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after Supreme Court blocked the first try. In a tweet Friday morning, Trump said, The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. The high court on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. The ruling means young immigrants can keep working, providing for their families and making a difference in this country," she said. Now that theres been a Supreme Court decision, really the instructions are gonna be you need to bring back the program in full effect, Perez said.

A demonstrator outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices heard oral arguments regarding the Trump administrations bid to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the presidents attempt to end the program nearly three years after Trump first announced he would phase it out. The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won, he said. The case the Supreme Court heard, Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, came out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. But in a separate DACA case, a federal judge in Texas on Thursday ordered both sides to file paperwork next month following the high courts opinion, NBC reported.

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trumps effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal and that courts have no role to play in reviewing the decision to end DACA. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court that the administration did not pursue the end of the program properly. We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies, Roberts wrote. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.