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.
That means if Congress doesn't act, starting March 6, as many as 983 undocumented people could lose their protected status every day-- nearly 30,000 people a month, on average, for two years -- as DACA recipients' permits start to expire.