Following the Trump administration announcement on Tuesday that
it plans to scrap the program giving temporary legal immigration status to
people who arrived in the US illegally as children, known as DACA, fear has
gripped the affected persons also known as the Dreamers. Attorney General, Jeff
Sessions said the US would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
policy in March 2018, throwing almost 800,000 people who currently benefit from
the program into a state of turmoil and fear.
Five years after Barack Obama’s implementation of Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which allowed recipients to get driver’s
licenses, attend college, begin careers, purchase homes, and do all the other
things that US citizens take for granted, Dreamers now face the reality that it
could all be taken away.
Barack Obama created DACA with his executive powers after
Congress failed to pass the so-called Development, Relief and Education for
Alien Minors (Dream) Act, which would have offered those who had arrived
illegally as children the chance of permanent legal residency. Concerned
persons are called dreamers as a fallout from the name of the Act.
During last year’s divisive election campaign, Trump promised
to rip up DACA immediately, and make the deportation of the US’s estimated 11
million undocumented persons a top priority, along with his threats to ban all
Muslims from entering the US, and build a wall along the entire border with
Mexico. He has not yet successfully executed any of these threats.
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