Arizona’s DREAMers will keep their licenses to drive — at least as long as the DACA exists. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the last-ditch plea by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich to uphold a 2012 executive order by then-Gov. Jan Brewer to deny driver’s licenses to DACA recipients, an order current Gov. Doug Ducey […]
Keeping DACA brings more benefits for U.S. Economy
March 7, 2018 By
For 24-year-old Nicolas Ugaz-Valencia, every work day is living the American dream. He is a manager for a home health care service in New York City, using his Spanish language skills to help people in need. Back in 2001, Nicolas and his family left their home country of Peru in pursuit of a new life […]
March 5th – The DACA deadline that never happened
March 5, 2018 By
It’s been six months since President Donald Trump moved to end DACA and Washington seems to be no closer to a resolution on the day everything was supposed to be solved by. Today, March 5 was originally supposed to be a deadline of sorts for action. When Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]
With midterms approaching, the future of DACA more uncertain than ever.
March 2, 2018 By
Action to protect so-called Dreamers from deportation has stalled indefinitely, with neither President Trump nor Democrats and Republicans in Congress feeling pressure to compromise as the midterm elections approach. “A lot of the air is out of the balloon here in the Capitol and people don’t sense its urgency,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, […]
DACA deal likely to be included in new funding bill
February 27, 2018 By
Republican senators are predicting that a fix for the DACA program will end up in next month’s government funding bill, as they search for ways to break a months-long stalemate. That’s probably the most likely thing, when we write the funding of the government bill we’ll extend DACA legislatively, making it legal for a year or two […]
Supreme Court delivers a blow to the Trump administration on DACA
February 26, 2018 By
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the Trump administration’s challenge to a lower court ruling temporarily blocking it from ending the DACA program. The court’s decision delivers a blow to the administration, which argues that DACA is unconstitutional. It also could ease some pressure on Congress to quickly come up with a legislative […]
What is next for DREAMers and DACA?
February 20, 2018 By
Both “DREAMers” and their employers are worried about how the wind-down of DACA will affect them, as a Trump administration deadline to find a deal on the young immigrant’s fate approaches. The Senate failed to pass a replacement to the program last week, leaving Congress with few legislative options before the March 5 deadline. However, recipients of the program, who were brought to the […]
Supreme Court to decide today whether it will review DACA
February 16, 2018 By
The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors today to decide whether to take up a lower court opinion that temporarily blocked President Trump’s effort to end DACA. Last month the Justice Department decided to take the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to review the ruling by federal District Judge William Alsup of […]
As immigration debate takes place second judge blocks Trump’s decision to end DACA
February 14, 2018 By
A second federal judge has blocked President Trump’s decision to cancel DACA, dealing another blow to the president’s efforts to end protections for nearly 800,000 undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children. The injunction issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn mirrors a separate ruling handed down last month in California. […]
Uncertainty is keeping undocumented California students from applying for financial aid
February 13, 2018 By
Each year, California invites students who are in the country without legal status to apply for the same financial aid as other students, but officials once again are concerned that fears are keeping students from seeking help. “We’re 20,000 students behind,” said Lupita Cortez Alcalá, executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, the organization […]
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