DACA

A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily.

The ruling allows the program to go forward, but only for current DACA recipients known as Dreamers, not new applicants.

When Juliana Macedo do Nascimento signed up for an Obama-era program to shield immigrants who came to the country as young children from deportation, she enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles, transitioning from jobs in housekeeping, child care, auto repair and a construction company.

The Biden administration has unveiled a regulation aimed at fending off legal challenges to a decade-old program that shields immigrants from deportation if they arrived as young children.

Immigrant advocates head to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday in hopes of saving an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of people brought into the U.S. as children.

Wednesday marks ten years since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) went into effect. The program gave undocumented immigrants who were brought into the U.S. by their parents, a chance to live and work in the country

The 2012 Obama-era policy opened job and educational pathways to thousands of undocumented and mainly Latino young Americans. Ten years later, its future is tenuous.

On June 15, 2012, the Obama Department of Homeland Security announced DACA, a policy stating the U.S. would no longer deport some undocumented young people who arrived here as children, and allow them to get two-year work permits. But DACA allows no path to permanent status like citizenship, and immigration activists like Jose Munoz from United We Dream are urging...

The Biden administration has released a plan to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation

While his dream of becoming a U.S. citizen has yet to be realized. But a DACA recipient’s dream of becoming an Olympian has come true.

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