The program permits undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to remain and work without fear of deportation, barring criminal offenses.
The objective of the Thursday announcement, the administration explained, was to clarify that immigrants enrolled in the DACA program would not immediately be affected by a separate action that officially ended a similar program - DAPA - for illegal immigrants whose children are citizens or legal permanent residents. A court had blocked the DAPA program and it has never been implemented. As part of the expansion to protect immigrant parents living in the United States illegally, the Obama administration also sought to provide the young immigrants with work permits good for three years at a time.
In a speech on immigration given in August 2016, Trump said, "We will immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants". Kelly made the announcement of the revocation of the memo in a statement Thursday, which said the Obama memo was revoked because "there is no credible path forward to litigate the now enjoined policy".
The U.S. immigration authorities have been taking action against many immigrants.
Karen Menendez Coller the Executive Director of Centro Hispano of Dane County says all of the pushing from immigration rights groups may have led to what she calls a step in the right direction for the Trump administration.
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With Ron-Robert Zieler's future unclear, Leicester appear ready to bring him in as back-up to first-choice Kasper Schmeichel. The 24-year-old has agreed to a five-year deal, which means he will be the English Premier League club till 2022.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly revoked the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program, ensuring the policy will not be enacted in the near-future.
Obama allegedly told Trump that if a change to the program were to be initiated, it would be the one issue that would move him to get back into the political arena and defend it. Arrests of immigrants inside the USA have increased under the Trump administration, but deportations are slightly down because fewer people have been caught crossing the Mexican border into the United States illegally.
In April, White House press secretary Sean Spicer explained Trump's reluctance by saying that he "has a heart".
The program would have tentatively affected about four million undocumented immigrants in the country if it had gone into effect. Continuing it would be unpopular with many of his supporters.
Breathing a sigh of relief, "dreamers" will continue to benefit from the Obama-era "DACA" program, granting undocumented children a temporary legal status.
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