On Friday, Homeland Security Department Secretary John Kerry said the DAPA program for parents of immigrant had "languished in limbo" many years ago.
Therefore, Kelly announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program also known as DACA would remain unaltered.
"We hope President Trump now will keep his entire promise by ordering an end to the Obama Administration's other unconstitutional amnesty, the DACA program, which continues to issues new work permits to those here illegally", he said.
The Homeland Security Department announced on Thursday that it was formally rescinding an Obama-era program meant to allow certain undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States. A court had blocked the DAPA program and it has never been implemented.
DACA does not provide a legal immigration path to citizenship or any status that leads to permanent protection; it does offer immigrants with valid work permit for a period of two years.
No decision on that program's future has been made, according to the White House.
Nevertheless, immigrant rights activists said that Trump's aggressive new deportation policies continue apace, including against people with no criminal records.
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Trump has made immigration enforcement a top priority and has vowed to continue a crackdown on those living in the USA illegally and those trying to sneak into the country. Arrests of immigrants inside the US have increased under the Trump administration, but deportations are slightly down as fewer people have been caught crossing the Mexican border into the United States illegally.
But DACA recipients, known as the "dreamers", may stay.
DACA has been the greatest exception to Trump's tough approach on immigration. In 2015, he introduced the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act (H.R. 1715) to reverse former President Obama's executive action to circumvent Congress in granting amnesty to up to 5 million illegal immigrants. The move officially ends litigation surrounding DAPA after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 in June 2016 on the appeal to the ruling from Texas.
"Regardless if you're undocumented or documented, these policies affect them, and politicians actually have a conversation with them", she said.
The program was blocked by a federal judge in Texas after 26 states sued. Yet as president, he repeatedly expressed empathy with the young participants in the DACA program.
The program allowed undocumented immigrants to apply for two years of protected status as long as the entered the US before turning 16-years-old, had no serious crimes on their record and had either attended school or given military service.
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