{"id":37768,"date":"2021-07-16T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37768"},"modified":"2021-07-16T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T23:28:57","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-new-applications-to-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37768","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks new applications to DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">A federal judge in Texas blocked new\u00a0applications for\u00a0the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in a ruling Friday, increasing pressure on Congress to find a legislative solution for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration advocates had been expecting the ruling for weeks, fearing Judge Andrew Hanen \u2014\u00a0 a George W. Bush appointee who is known for his tough stance on immigration matters \u2014 could rule against the legality of the Obama-era program as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Hanen ruled that the Department of Homeland Security violated the Administrative Procedure Act &#8220;with the creation of DACA and its continued operation.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Texas blocked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37769,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768\/revisions\/37769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}