Throughout the presidential campaign Donald Trump promised to terminate DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). White House officials report that Trump will end DACA – as early as Friday. This move abandons and strands over 2 million people that are eligible for DACA.
A 23 year old Mexican man, brought to this country by his parents at a very young age was detained by U.S. Immigration Authorities. He lives and works in the U.S. under the DACA program. He is being held in the Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. This program currently protects approximately 750,000 people from […]
Scott D. Mills the-Immigration-Lawyer.com Over a week ago, I discussed how and why President Obama should fix the stalemate on immigration by using executive order to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programs to include more immigrants. Now Senator Marco Rubio is expressing his fear that the President is going to make this happen. […]
A US district court in Texas today dismissed Kris Kobach’s lawsuit against the deferred action (DACA) program which has for almost a year now granted DREAMers temporary relief from deportation. This is great news for DREAMers. This program has offered great opportunities to many young undocumented immigrants. It would have been a shame to take that away […]
Major changes took place Thursday morning as The House voted to overturn all of President Obama’s non-deportation policies. The House voted to preserve a program which allows local police to help enforce our current immigration laws, rejecting the presidents efforts to defund it. Along with this they have voted to defund the Deffered Action for […]
DREAMers with approved DACA applications in Michigan have been denied access to driving privileges – just like in Arizona and Nebraska. Now DREAMers are responding by suing Michigan for the right to have a drivers license. We have a massive disconnect with logic here. Young people granted DACA protection are obviously following the rules and […]
Arizona continues to deny rights to immigrants, in direct opposition to the Federal government’s effort to give more rights. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order making DACA recipients ineligible for all public benefits – including a driver’s license. http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/29/arizona-faces-lawsuit-over-daca-drivers-license-policy/
