DACA

<p>The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allows qualified undocumented immigrants who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deportation deferral and makes them eligible for work permits. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would take no new applicants and would draw down the program over the course of several years. A federal court ruling in January 2018 required the Trump administration to partially continue to run the program as legal challenges remain. The government is now accepting DACA renewal requests but not new applications. The Trump administration says they are appealing the ruling and will ask the Supreme Court to hear the case. In the meantime, DACA recipients are awaiting a solution from Congress to help them to keep their temporary status or to gain a path to legal residence and citizenship.</p>

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As DACA fix remains elusive, Arizona ‘Dreamers’ focus on in-state tuition

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Young, undocumented immigrants in Arizona are asking lawmakers to help make college more accessible to them.

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President Obama created DACA. Why won’t courts let President Trump end it?

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A medical student lives out the dreams of her undocumented father — even if he is deported

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A woman looks at photographs on the wall.

It was once easier to go unnoticed, but some DACA recipients from Europe and Canada say they are ready to join the immigration fight

March 6, 2018Justice

No immigration bill as feds ink contract to monitor license plates

February 16, 2018Justice

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For immigrant Republicans, Trump’s turn to limit legal immigration creates divisions

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They haven’t changed their positions on illegal immigration, but conservative immigrants are now contending with the Trump administration’s proposals to curb legal immigration.

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What you need to know ahead of a tumultuous immigration debate in Congress.

(Left to right): Indira Marquez Robles, Dustin Henderson, Maria Geneva Reyes, Mwewa Mwange and Jasiel López (left to right) are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Nearly 40 percent of DACA recipients are high school or college students. Now their future is in limbo.

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By the numbers and their individual stories, the DACA program has given people just starting their adult lives a lifeline.

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A court ruling offers some relief to this Texas high school student. But will it last?

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Indira Marquez Robles has lived in the US since she was six months old. She knows deportation is a reality, but refuses to feel haunted by it.

A child peers through the double steel fence that separates the US and Mexico, in Tijuana, last month

An activist lobbying for DACA says this week has been a ‘roller coaster of emotions’

January 11, 2018Global Politics

Politicians in the nation’s capital are debating immigration policy changes. Activists are lobbying for an urgent deal to protect those affected by the Trump administration dismantling the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

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