Friday, September 22, 2017

DACA

         The Trump’s administration announced that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in six months if Congress doesn't find a more permanent solution. DACA is a program created in 2012 by the Obama administration allowing young people brought to this country illegally by their parents to get a temporary protection from deportation and to be able to work, study and obtain driver's licenses. There are about 800,000 DACA recipients who had to be younger than 31 years old when the program began.


          Few months ago, a federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order blocking President Trump’s ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, this article that is published by REUTERS giving the hope to DACA recipients that anther federal judge looking closely and trying to speed up the process on lawsuits over the DACA blocking. lawsuits that the Trump’s administration did not follow proper administrative procedure in rescinding DACA, and that making enforcement promises to a group of people, only to revoke them, and to violate the due process. It is important to review this article to know the last updates on the DACA program recipients’ legal fights against the president’s decision.