«Regardless of where you come down in these debates, you need to take a broader calculus into account, and look at the consequences
DACA has for children and their future success or failure.»
Not exact matches
The bill appears to be heading toward the finish line, though at least three other Republican senators remained publicly undecided on Friday, including Mike Lee of Utah, who
has allied with Mr. Rubio in pressing
for an expanded
child credit, and Jeff Flake of Arizona, who
has been trying to extract commitments from Republican leadership related to the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals, or
DACA, program.
The threat of a lawsuit from 10 conservative state attorneys general
has led to reports that President Donald Trump plans on ending or at least modifying the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals, or
DACA, a program that protects
children of undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country when they were too young to
have a say.
About a million of these «Dreamers»
have been safeguarded by the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (
DACA) program, while Deferred Action
for Parents of Americans applies to families of
children born in the US.
Surrounded by
children on the South Lawn of the White House
for the annual Easter Egg Roll festivities, President Donald Trump lashed out again about
DACA, saying that Democrats
had abandoned the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as
children and who
have benefited from the program.
Nearly 800,000 people who illegally entered the U.S. as
children years ago
have been protected by the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals program, or
DACA, in recent years.
He
has been a critic of President Trump, and
has been part of several efforts to push back against White Houseactions, such as the rescinding of
DACA protection
for immigrants brought into the United States illegally as
children.
Trump
has signaled he wants to work with Democrats on extending the legal status of those who fall under the Deferred Action
for Children Arrivals, or
DACA, program.
Six immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents illegally as
children have sued the Trump administration over its decision to end the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals, or
DACA, program.
In 2012, the Obama administration announced that youth who
'd arrived in the United States as
children could request consideration of Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (
DACA), which allows them to stay in the country two years at a time and to work.
In our Summer 2018 forum, Shavar Jeffries argues that the president's policies, including the rescinding of the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (
DACA) policy,
have harmed
children and schools.
An estimated 200,000 citizen
children whose parents
have been protected under
DACA will live with increased fear
for their parents» safety and may lose access to services if their parents avoid interactions with governmental agencies, including meetings with teachers and school administrators,
for fear of deportation.
Declaring that
DACA somehow «denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans» and calling innocent young men, women, and
children «illegal aliens», U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared on behalf of the coward occupying the White House that the administration
would no longer renew applications
for DACA participants.
The California Charter Schools Association
has signed Stand
for Children's letter urging continued federal support
for the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (
DACA) program, which protects undocumented students.
It will concentrate on two high risk populations: those immigrants with removal orders against them and
DACA (Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals) recipients — undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as
children and
have spent most of their lives here.»
Without the protections granted under the
DACA program, these families are forced to consider and plan
for the worst: a parent or both parents being deported, being away from their
children and the only home they
have ever known.