This reflects the administration's shift to harsher immigration raids that have separated parents from their children, prompting some city officials to declare themselves "sanctuary cities" for undocumented people in opposition to President Trump's draconian immigration policies.
After the Supreme Court decision, DHS Secretary John Kelly said that "there is no credible path forward to litigate the now enjoined policy". DACA allows for immigrants who came to the USA as children, known as "Dreamers", to obtain work permits and remain in the country legally.
Iveth Diaz, 26, of San Jacinto, been able to work and study in the USA legally through the DACA program for the past four years.
The decision continues, at least temporarily, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program.
However, the amnesty was never granted because it was blocked by a court in Texas, and then proceeded to end in a Supreme Court deadlock after it was challenged.
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The decision to continue the DACA program, which impacts about 800,000 people in the United States, came as the administration formally ended Mr. Obama's attempt to expand it to also cover the parents of the Dreamers.
Unfortunately, until the Trump administration announced their reversal this week, those Dreamers had been made to fear for their lives in the United States as President Trump repeatedly indicated that he would no longer respect established precedent regarding Dreamers.
Kelly, an appointee of President Trump, rescinded the 2014 order on the five-year anniversary of the implementation of the DACA program.
DAPA would have affected as many as four million people by some estimates, those with US-born children who were in the country before 2010. The announcement is bittersweet for many undocumented families because it means that while some young people can continue to remain in the US, their parents are not offered the same protection. Kelly said he made the decision "because there is no credible path forward to litigate the now enjoined policy".
During his presidential campaign, Trump called both programs "illegal executive amnesties" that circumvented Congress. The second one, DAPA, was for illegal-immigrant parents of children who are USA citizens by virtue of having been born here. Since taking office, however, Trump has softened his tone on young undocumented immigrants, saying the administration was focused on deporting criminals.
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