DACA to Remain in Effect, DAPA Rescinded by Trump Administration

"But my future is still in their hands and undecided", she said. In the months following his election, Trump began to waver on DACA.

President Trump has officially reversed his campaign pledge to deport the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children.

Homeland Security Department spokesman David Lapan says no decisions about DACA's ultimate fate have been made. In an ABC interview in January, Trump said that he had a "big heart" and that immigrants who came to the U.S.as children "shouldn't be very anxious". Under the program, certain people can receive work permits and temporary protection from deportation. IL has the nation's fourth-largest population of DACA recipients and the highest share in the Midwest.

But raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have caught up many people with minor legal violations and families who have lived in the country for decades.

Trump has hinted he would not try to deport DACA recipients.

During the campaign, things were pretty straightforward - Mr. Trump was going to reverse the Obama executive actions on immigration, period.

But the news came in a Homeland Security memo announcing that the administration is revoking similar protections for certain legal residents and immigrants in the country illegally who have US -born children. At a rally in August 2016, Trump said he would "immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties", referring to DACA and another program-Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)-which the DHS said on Thursday had been rescinded.

The DHS issued the guidance ahead of a court-ordered deadline in a lawsuit created to halt Obama's effort to expand the program to parents of Dreamers and people with green cards.

But the announcement, which DHS said was supported by the Justice Department, made no suggestion of a replacement policy in the works, leaving those potentially protected by DAPA again at risk of deportation.

"They shouldn't be very anxious; they are here illegally; they shouldn't be very anxious".

Trump's vows since taking office to crack down on those living in the USA illegally further concerns her. Thus, those who strenuously object to DACA have a right to be upset, unless they took Trump "seriously", rather than "literally".

The program to protect parents was announced by President Barack Obama in November 2014 but was never fully launched.

"I don't think this is anything but a statement of what the policy has been", he said.