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First New DACA Applications Approved in Final Weeks of 2020

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - More than 170 new applicants have become the first
   individuals in several years to win approval to the Obama-era Deferred
   Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants brought to the
   U.S. as young people, the U.S. government revealed in a court filing
   Monday.

   A report submitted by the Department of Homeland Security to Brooklyn
   federal court showed 171 new applications were approved from November
   14 through the end of 2020, while nearly 500 applications were either
   denied or rejected. In all, 2,713 applications were submitted.

   U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis had ordered the federal
   government to post public notice that it would accept applications
   under the terms in place before President Donald Trump ended DACA in
   2017, saying it was unconstitutional.

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