U.S. will consider new applications for DACA for the first time in years
Washington – For the first time in four years, the Federal Government plans to start processing the first applications for the Obama -era program, which gives the United States as a child and gives work permits.
The movement, which was mentioned by the Ministry of Justice in a proposal on Monday, would re -open the DAA to the first applicants in every state except Texas. The proposal was presented in response to an ongoing case in the US Regional Court in Tex, Brownsville.
According to the file, the inhabitants of Texas, who already have DCA, may continue to be protected from deportation, but no longer entitled to employment authority.
President Trump has been moving to end the program to end the program in the first period, or postponed actions on Daja or postponed actions for childhood arrival.
Pursuant to the government’s proposal, the Daja buyers moved to Texas may allow them to be entitled to a two -year work permit while leaving Texas while leaving Texas.
The proposal awaits a final decision by the US Regional Court judge Andrew Hanen.
“These offers do not limit DHS to undertaking future legal changes in DACA, Filling the filing says.
The Ministry of Interior Security did not respond to the request for comments.
United We Dream Federal Defending Deputy Director Juliana Macedo Do Nascimemento said that the wrong information was traveling on social media on Tuesday.
“We have seen many people who said that the first practices will start immediately. This is not true,” he said. “Status quo remains. If you are a Facial buyer right now, even in Texas, if you can renew it, you should renew it as soon as possible because there are two more years.”
Other advocacy groups, such as Dreamers2Gether, who did not purify, called on DACA buyers and hopeful applicants to leave Texas and to create an address change with US citizenship and immigration services.
More than that 525,000 immigrants It is currently registered to DACA. According to USCIS, Texas follows California in the ranking of states with the highest number of program registered.
In order to be qualified, the applicants must prove that they have come to the United States before they are 16 years old and before the graduation of high school or an honorable discharged from the army. Applicants cannot have serious criminal records.
However, for years, the program sat in the midst of the court wars, which stopped the processing of practices and left many young people who would stay for the DACA, vulnerable to deportation, in the event of an concern for many buyers.
In this first period, Trump tried to close the program, but the Supreme Court concluded that the administration was incorrectly in 2020. The court did not decide the legality of the program.
Due to the court war, the program has been closed to new applicants since 2021, but existing buyers can still renew their work permits.
27 -year -old Los Angeles resident Atziri Peña is running a clothing company called Barrio Drive, who donates to help Daja buyers renew their applications.
Peña, who has DACA, said that he knew many people who are thinking of going out of the state in Texas. The latest news is another example of how the immigration system breaks down families.
Peña said, “Many of us, who are the buyers of the dacus, do not know what it is like to be without Daja, so most of us have careers that we cannot continue.”
United We Dream recorded at least 19 DACA buyers detained by immigrant agents in recent months. In one case in Texas, immigrant officials Catalina “XOCHITL” SANTIAGO Although an immigrant dominated, he said he could not be deported.
“This is a way to make sure that it has not renewed DACA, and then it can be deported, Mag said Macedo Do Nascimemento. According to him, the Ministry of Internal Security has recently reduced the guards offered to the buyers.
“The larger picture here is that DHS is still switching to a new policy of DACA – without having to remove the DACA completely from the courts, the process of managing, or completely away from the DA. “They are really trying to finish the program that is really the buyer by the buyer.”
Nevertheless, immigrants from the country are looking forward to applying to DACA for the first time.
“While it can still be detained, this is a little sense of security and hope,” Peña said. “I heard people waiting for the re -opening of the DA.
