Court rejects Obama-era policy on illegal immigrant children
A US federal appeals court ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump takes office with pledges of mass deportations.
The unanimous decision by a panel of the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, two judges appointed by Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and one by Democrat Barack Obama, is the latest blow for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, whose beneficiaries have lived in legal limbo for more than a decade.
