Circuit Courts. Once the federal district court has decided a case, the case can be appealed to a United States court of appeal. There are twelve federal circuits that divide the country into different regions. The Fifth Circuit, for example, includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
DACA applicants had to be younger than 31 years old when the program began. They also had to prove that they had lived in the United States continuously since June 15, 2007, and that they had arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16.
Analysis of the occupational distribution of the DACA eligible finds that this population is more likely to be in lower-skilled jobs when compared to all workers ages 16 to 32. When contrasted to unauthorized immigrants in the same age cohort who are not eligible for DACA, strikingly different occupational patterns emerge.