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.
DACA applies to individuals up to age 31 (as of June 2012, so 35 now) â hardly children; consequently, many Dreamers have long-since terminated their studies and most have committed multiple felonies in order to get jobs â Social Security fraud, forgery, perjury on I-9 forms, falsification of green cards and driversâ licenses, identity theft, etc. Dreamers continue to commit these job-related crimes right up to the day their DACA status is approved and they obtain work permits and ...