Those enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, "will continue to be eligible" to renew their status every two years, shielding them from deportation proceedings and allowing them to receive work permits, the Department of Homeland Security announced late Thursday night.
Thursday's announcement that the Trump administration was rescinding the policy means the administration will no longer defend the policy in court, stating in a press release that "there is no credible path forward to litigate the now enjoined policy".
DAPA affected certain undocumented immigrants who are the parents of children who are USA citizens or legal residents.
But in an Associated Press interview in April, Trump said his administration is "not after the dreamers, we are after the criminals" and that "The dreamers should rest easy". In Friday's statement, Codognolla warned the decision doesn't herald Trump's administration turning a leaf over its immigration policies.
The program applies to undocumented immigrants who came to the US under the age of 16 before June 15, 2012.
"Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), granted to more than 780,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S.as minors, was a similar example of an executive overreach that was based on the same flawed legal principle", Stein said.
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Numerous 800,000 immigrants protected by the DACA program did not know that they were in the country illegally, and many reportedly attended American schools from a young age.
The program meant to keep immigrant parents safe from deportation and provide them with renewable work permit for two years.
Although Trump vowed to dismantle the executive action protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children, it seems as though the president has heeded Obama's words and had a change of heart.
"Prior to implementation of DAPA, twenty-six states challenged the policies established in the DAPA memorandum in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas", the statement continued.
That program, like the one for young immigrants, was created with a policy memo, not by legislation. "Despite the Trump administration saying that DACA is going to continue as it is, it doesn't really guarantee that they're not going to take it away in what's left of his presidency". The reasons for reversing DAPA are also reasons for reversing DACA, but the administration apparently has no plans to end that program, or even to curtail it. More than 700,000 young people, many of whom college students, benefit from the DACA program, and many college leaders have called for it to be continued.
Trump's vows since taking office to crack down on those living in the US illegally further concerns her.
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