Victory For Now For Dreamers

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The undocumented immigrants who came to the United States during their childhood, better known as Dreamers, will be able to remain in the country for now, the Department of Homeland Security reported yesterday, as reported by the American newspaper The New York Times.

With this measure, President Donald Trump reverses his campaign promise to deport them and continues the program established during the government of former President Barack Obama, in which in addition to protecting the Dreamers from deportations, they are allowed to study and apply for work permits in the United States. However, according to the newspaper, White House officials said Friday morning that Trump has not made a long-term determination on the program - and could in fact resume his campaign promise to take away their work permits or deport them further. ahead.

"This is a great victory for D reamers after months of draconian and petty application of immigration policy," said David Leopoldo, an attorney representing immigrants.

Although raids on undocumented immigrants are the order of the day throughout the country, by leaving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in place, which was established in 2012 and supports 800,000 people, “no permission from work will be canceled before the current expiration dates, explains a technical sheet from the Department of Homeland Security.

Preserving DACA is a tribute to the strength of the D reamer movement and an acknowledgment by the Department of Homeland Security, at least in part, that it should not target undocumented immigrants who have close ties to their communities and have respected the law. Concluded Leopoldo.

However, this institution also announced that DAPA, a similar program proposed during the Obama administration that sought to protect undocumented parents from those who are already citizens, will be terminated.