Immigrants who built lives in the United States after being brought here illegally as children were among more than 200 demonstrators who gathered Thursday outside a federal courthouse in New

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Immigrants who grew up in the United States after being brought here illegally as children will be among demonstrators outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans on Thursday as three appellate judges hear arguments over the Biden administration's policy shielding them from deportation.

But it has been under attack by Texas and six other Republican-led states for years, and may now be approaching its moment of greatest legal peril, having reached what is widely regarded as the most conservative appellate court in the country.