In the summer of 2012, following 2 years of protest and grassroots advocacy by affected youth (“Dreamers”), not to mention the prospect of his getting reelected, President Barack Obama announced an executive action of DACA on June 15, 2012. DACA pushed young people — previously attending school and working in the shadows — forward, to ensure that they could get some kind of protection under the law.
Despite the fact that a DACA recipient was allowed to represent our country at the Olympics, a federal judge inflicted a blow to the program in late July.
Still Waiting for the DREAM to become REALITY: This is my 25th year as an immigration lawyer — and we are focused on Dreamers and DACA. It was recently announced that Senator Durbin and Senator Graham have proposed a bipartisan Dream act for 2021. What’s notable about this is that 20 years ago, Senator Durbin with then-Senator Hatch did…
Close to 800,000 people in the United States have been protected (more than the current population of Seattle) under the DACA executive order that came into effect under former President Obama. If you include those young people that applied for the program and didn’t get into it, or those who were eligible, but hadn’t applied yet, all in this change affects upwards of over a million young people in the United States and their families.
Federal judge William Alsop in San Francisco has blocked Trump’s administration from ending DACA. Claiming that the move to rescind the program was based on “a flawed legal premise,” he ruled that the program must be left in place until the litigation to remove it has been decided. Dreamers’ lives were thrown into uncertainty and turmoil last fall when Trump’s administration rescinded DACA. At the time many young people were told that if they didn’t get their DACA renewal applications done before October 5th, they would lose their status. This is a huge win for anyone who is benefiting from this program in the United States.
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