Dozens rally at Idaho Capitol in support of Dreamers

Announce that DACA renewals will only be processed until December 31, after which they will start expiring.

“This is the place that I know as home”, she said. Within the next 60 days, DACA could be gone.

Manny Jimenez says he was a sophomore in high school when he qualified for DACA four years ago.

“Just like many other issues dealing with immigration, it has been a constant source of political attacks by the Trump Administration and the GOP agenda”, he said. They go about their business of attending school and working.

“Previous to that, going to college was more of a farfetched dream”, Jimenez said at the rally in Los Angeles.

Since the program’s inception, almost 800,000 undocumented immigrants have been able to apply for the program, work in the United States, and not worry about deportation in two-year increments.

But he expressed empathy for Dreamers at a press conference early this year.

I defend DACA because with it I have been able to help others.

“I consider myself American in always except one, a piece of paper”, Escalante said.

Immigrant rights groups held actions in more than 30 cities on Tuesday calling for the protection of DACA.

The program benefits immigrant youth by giving them the opportunity to stay within USA territory and have access to achieve a higher education.

Since the legal pretext used by the Obama administration to justify DACA is identical to DAPA, it could well be that at the next hearing on the lawsuit, coming up in a few weeks, the judge will allow DACA to be swapped in for DAPA (which DHS has rescinded).

A new open letter to the president by 105 law professors makes clear that the DACA program is lawful and constitutional. Removing DACA would be akin to subjecting kids like hers to a “nightmare”, Lopez said, for which the president is to blame. Over 1 million people depend on these vital programs, which allow them to work, and also with the ability to continue providing for their families.

The Fifth Circuit upheld Hanen’s injunction.

“The program has provided many benefits”.

The case has been stayed in Hanen’s court, but Paxton said he would revive it with an amended complaint if Trump does not do away with DACA.

Educators from Minneapolis and St. Paul as well as representatives from the offices of U.S. Sen.

“In our view, there is no question that DACA 2012 is a lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion”, the letter states. “When I saw who was our president, my body was filled with fear because I wonder what will happen to us”. Indeed, every legal challenge to the DACA program has failed. Marco Rubio faulted Obama for using executive action. MS said it would cost the state $25 million in health care, education and law enforcement.

“Since our founding, America has known that immigrants are dreamers and doers”. “They pay their taxes”.

When she arrived in the USA from India, she was 5 and spoke no English on her first day of school.

Nationwide, there are 800,000 DACA recipients. It’s not clear whether the administration, which has energized supporters with its tougher approach to immigration, will defend the program in court. “So please, please remember that we have your back”.