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Fate of DACA Still Uncertain

Aline Barros

   The fate of about 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the
   United States as children is in the hands of the nine U.S. Supreme
   Court justices.

   The court is expected to decide in the coming weeks if the Trump
   administration has the right to end a program that allows these
   immigrants to work in the U.S. free from the threat of deportation.

   Amid the 2020 presidential campaign, the Supreme Court is hearing a
   lawsuit that began after the September 2017 decision by President
   Donald Trump to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
   (DACA) program.

   Three injunctions

   Immigrant groups filed several lawsuits against the administration's
   decision and argued that ending DACA was unlawful, resulting in U.S.
   district courts in the District of Columbia, California and New York
   issuing three nationwide injunctions, allowing DACA recipients to renew
   their deferred action.

   Shelly Peskin, a legal assistant at CASA de Maryland and member
   ofAvodahJewish Service Corps, told VOA that while the Supreme Court's
   decision has not been issued, they are pleading with clients to renew
   their DACA benefits.

   "I am taking clients whose expiration dates are through early 2021. '¦
   We are doing appointments over the phone because CASA has gone remote
   for the foreseeable future," she said.

   [1]To qualify for the program, an applicant must have a clean criminal
   record, been brought to the U.S. before they were 16 years old,
   received a background check and lived in the country at least five
   years. DACA does not lead to U.S. citizenship.

References

   1. https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-process/filing-tips-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals

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