DACA

Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday that 500 community college students in Los Angeles will receive a grant to pay the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) application fee.

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), in coordination with the city of Los Angeles, announced Monday that they will cover the cost of the application renewal for DACA students in its nine campuses covered under that initiative.

Tens of thousands of young immigrants in the U.S. without legal status are in limbo once again after a court ruling last week declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) an Obama-era program that has allowed nearly 800,000 young people brought into the U.S. illegally as children to avoid deportation is facing uncertainty yet again.

President Joe Biden says the Justice Department intends to appeal a federal judge’s ruling deeming illegal an Obama-era program that’s protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.

Advocates are calling on Congress and President Joe Biden to act quickly on legislation that would provide a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants after a federal judge in Texas ordered the end to an Obama-era program that protects them from deportation

The ruling puts in jeopardy the Obama-era DACA immigration program, which President Joe Biden had sought to preserve.

“I celebrate DACA, I’m really proud of the program that means that I get to stay here with my family,” says Greisa Martínez Rosas. The Obama administration program gave deportation and work protections to undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children. Advocates are still calling for a path to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers and people with temporary protected...

Dulce García, a dreamer, has lived most of her life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, but with the help of a travel permit, she was able to return to Mexico, albeit only for a short time.

President Joe Biden has met with six young immigrants who benefited from an Obama-era policy that protected those brought to the U.S. illegally as children

Many youths who could benefit from the DACA program are not taking advantage of an immigration opportunity.

President Joe Biden has had a busy first few days in office. As part of his first acts, the president restored DACA and issued a moratorium on certain deportations for 100 days. Now, Bay Area advocates want to make sure immigrants have the correct information as to how this is all going to work.

The U.S. government says it has approved the first new applicants in several years to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants brought to the U.S. as young people.

A federal judge didn’t immediately issue a ruling following a court hearing on the fate of a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children

A federal court will consider whether to invalidate a program that shields from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children, potentially creating complications for the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden

Fernando Navarrette is many things: a field deputy for LA City Councilman Joe Buscaino in the Wilmington area, Mexican-American, the son of a street vendor, and a DACA recipient.

Three years after the Trump administration tried to rescind DACA protections, the program is reinstated. John Cadiz Klemack reports Dec. 9, 2020.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is officially accepting new applications for the first time in three years after a federal judge fully reinstated the program. LX News welcomed DACA recipient Osiris Ordaz and Andrea Anaya, who is now eligible to apply for the first time, to discuss what the restoration of the Obama signature immigration policy means to them...

The Trump administration has fully restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants brought to the U.S. as young people, complying with a federal judge’s order.

A New York federal judge on Friday restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — which President Donald Trump has tried to end — in a court ruling that would swiftly grant thousands of immigrants whose parents brought them to the U.S. as young children the ability to continue to work and study in the country. U.S. District Judge...