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Appeals Court Hears Case Arguments That Will Determine DACA Program’s Fate
Republican-led states are trying to argue that the Obama-era program comes at a significant cost.
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Obama Urges To ‘Treat Dreamers Like the Americans They Are’ On DACA Anniversary
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects undocumented immigrants who arrive as minors turns ten today.
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Trump’s Random DACA Deadline Is Here, but He’s Too Busy Tweeting About Obama to Care
Way back in September, President Donald Trump set an arbitrary deadline to get the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals bill passed. The bill would grant a means to citizenship to undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children. The date Trump randomly gave was March 5. In January, Trump refused to sign a bipartisan…
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Undocumented Black Immigrants May Fare Worse Without DACA Protections
Tobore Oweh knows the next six months of her life will be stressful after Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Tuesday. She is one of 800,000 people covered under the Obama-era policy who fears the worst if Congress doesn’t come together to resolve the crisis Trump created. She and…
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15 States, DC Sue Trump Administration Over the End of DACA
On Wednesday, 15 states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. government over the president’s plan to remove protections against deportation for young immigrants, alleging that it was motivated by prejudice against Mexicans. According to the Boston Herald, legal experts do not believe the evidence is strong enough to support a claim of bias…
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Fear and Uncertainty for People Living Under DACA Now That Their Fates Rest With Congress
Cinthya Zapata came to the United States from Mexico and settled in Austin, Texas, with her family when she was only 2 years old. No one from her family lives in their old town of Toluca anymore. So if Congress, over the next six months, doesn’t come up with a solution to Donald Trump’s plan…
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Trump Ends DACA Because He Hates Us All
On Tuesday the Trump administration formally announced that it has rescinded the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, because it’s clear now that the Trump administration, from the bottom of its evil fire-burned feet to the very top of the last horn, hates us all. “I am here today to announce that…
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If Trump Ends DACA, Obama Is Ready to Show Out
Former President, and my president for life, Barack Obama promised that he wouldn’t armchair-quarterback current President Donald von DoucheFace’s presidency. Mostly because he knew that Trump was a disaster waiting to happen and he didn’t want to have to continually answer to von DoucheFace’s slipups. But when it comes to the Deferred Action for Childhood…
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The Small Man in the White House Moves to End DACA
Several news reports indicate that Donald Trump and his senior advisers met Sunday afternoon to discuss dismantling a federal program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children to legally work, destroying yet another one of former President Barack Obama’s signature actions, and dabbing to Trump’s racist base. Ending the Deferred Action…