Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Journalist Brian de los Santos pictures in a photo collage with some of his travel documents. Dan Carino/LAist hide caption
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, D.C. A proposed rule will expand government-funded health care access to DACA recipients. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A federal appeals court Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, ordered a lower court review of Biden administration revisions to DACA, a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children. The ruling, for now, leaves the future of DACA up in the air. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Demonstrators hold up signs outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans on Wednesday as a panel of judges heard arguments on the Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of immigrants brought into the U.S. as children. Kevin McGill/AP hide caption
Luis Grijalva, a student at Northern Arizona University, has qualified to compete at the Tokyo Olympics and represent his home country of Guatemala. But as a DACA recipient he couldn't leave the United States without special permission. Shane Bevel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images hide caption
President Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on July 21 after returning from a trip to Cincinnati. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
DACA counted some 636,000 active recipients — sometimes known as DREAMers — at the end of last year. Callaghan OHare/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Six of Biden's 17 first-day executive orders dealt with immigration, such as halting work on a border wall in Mexico and lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Javier Maradiaga (far right) with his brother, Jason Castillo; mother, Alma Maradiaga; and sister, Dariela Moncada on Christmas Eve in 2017. Dariela Moncada Maradiaga hide caption
Santiago Potes is the first Latino DACA recipient to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship. Santiago Potes hide caption
People demonstrate in June in Los Angeles in favor of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Immigrant rights advocates hailed a Friday court ruling allowing new applications as a "huge victory for people who have been waiting to apply for DACA for the first time." Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum from the Obama administration. But she says their treatment under President Trump has been worse. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
The Trump administration implemented new restrictions on DACA applicants following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering DHS to revert to the original guidelines set by President Barack Obama in 2012. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Protesters hold signs at a rally supporting the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the DACA program on June 18. The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to continue its rollback of the program, despite court rulings. Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Talya Zemach-Bersin hide caption
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients celebrate in front of the Supreme Court after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants, Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Washington. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
Miriam Gonzalez, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that DACA could remain in place. Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR hide caption
DACA recipients, including Carolina Fung Geng, (3rd from left), plaintiff Martin Batalla Vidal (center) and Eliana Fernández (3rd from right) hold their fists in the air as they enter the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty hide caption
Students and supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals rally in downtown Los Angeles in November while the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about the program. The court's ruling Thursday will uphold DACA for now. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Some governors are taking notice of the pool of medical professionals in immigrant communities and the bigger role they could play against the coronavirus. Wuttisak Promchoo/Getty Images hide caption
Passersby open doors to watch videos at an installation titled Common Ground, which shares personal stories of immigrants who are young entrepreneurs, war heroes and farmers in Miami on Oct. 3. The installation, organized by groups that get funding from the Koch network, aims to reframe discussions about the immigration debate. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Demonstrators rallied in Sacramento in May for Medi-Cal expansion to undocumented Californians. When the state's budget was finalized, only young adults up to age 26 were authorized to be included in the expansion. Gov. Gavin Newsom says that's an important first step. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
People brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as DREAMers, and other supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program listen as lawmakers speak at the U.S. Capitol. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption