On Friday, Federal Judge Andrew Hanen of Texas ruled that DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival)—a program preventing hundreds of thousands of undocumented minors from deportation—is illegal and must be cease admitting new applicants.

The Federal ruling indicated the DHS may accept new applications, but is forbidden from accepting new recipients. The existing ~616,030 active DACA recipients can continue to work, and may remain in the country, as well as renew the program. According to AmericanProgress.org“Nearly 256,000 U.S.-born, and thus U.S.-citizen, children have at least one parent who is a DACA recipient. Across the country, 1.5 million individuals live with a DACA recipient.”

Obama created the DACA as a ‘temporary measure’ in 2012, providing two years of “temporary citizenship” for undocumented immigrants who have entered the United States illegally before the age of 16, lived in the country continuously since [June] 2007, finished high school (or enlisted in the…