Mar 18, 2019 | US & World
…parents to the U.S. illegally as children and remain in the country under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. “Dreamer” comes from the DREAM Act, the Development, Relief,…
Jun 3, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun June 4, 2015
…Permanent Residents program, or DAPA, and to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Texas and 25 other states have sued to stop the programs and filed…
Sep 7, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, when the president said on Twitter that he might revisit the decision in six months. “Trust me, the guys in the far right,…
Dec 7, 2019 | US & World
…of bishops’ meeting coincided with oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA and bishops at the Baltimore…
Mar 11, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news
…Orleans, upholding a Texas-based federal judge’s injunction against Obama’s actions. In 2015, President Barack Obama’s executive actions expanded a 2012 program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA,…
Sep 13, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The bishops said the hurricane-ravaged areas of Texas and Florida “have some of the largest populations of DACA youth.” The bishops asked that Homeland Security…
Sep 13, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…to the bishops’ defense of young people, called “Dreamers,” and support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, that protected them from arbitrary deportation. DACA is currently…
Oct 26, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…immigrant youths in the United States known as “Dreamers.” Approximately 800,000 young men and women who have benefited from the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, are…
Nov 2, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. The program was put into place in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama. In September, President Donald Trump rescinded the…
Feb 5, 2019 | US & World
…and to people from certain countries who qualify for Temporary Protected Status. While calling Trump’s recognition to protect DACA and TPS recipients a “positive development,” Feasley called the plan “illusory.”…
Jun 23, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news
…immigration reform a priority. The case, argued before the court in April, involved Obama’s 2014 expansion of a 2012 program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and…
Nov 11, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news
…Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, that the “fight is still on.” Lewis, highlighted with Trinity students in a Nov. 9 Chronicle of Higher Education news video, said she…
Jan 25, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…the law, he said at the White House briefing Jan. 25. The executive memorandums did not address the issue of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, nor did…
Jan 26, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…people out there working” and their tax funds are sent to places that do not enforce the law, he said. The executive memorandums did not address the issue of DACA,…
Jan 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…by coming forward, they or their family members will be handed over to immigration authorities,” he said. The executive memorandums did not address the issue of DACA, the Deferred Action…
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…arrests under the new administration involving recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, the policy was not mentioned in the new guidelines. The program grants a…
Nov 21, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
…deportation of “Dreamers,” the beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. These are “young hard-working people who should be the lowest priority for deportation,” he said….
Jan 12, 2018 | Latest news, US & World
…— canceling Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, El Salvador, Sudan and Nicaragua, ending DACA, barring people from majority-Muslim countries.” And it was “especially appalling” that the president “graphically enunciated the…
Feb 28, 2018 | Latest news, US & World
…recess, members of Congress get calls on DACA “My prayer, my work for comprehensive immigration reform has had no impact on this administration,” she said. “I stand with Dreamers now…
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
…provisions for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the federal program for those brought into the United States without legal permission as minors by their parents. Some of those…
Dec 13, 2018 | US & World
…it also declined to hear and rule on whether the administration has the right to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, which the U.S. bishops…
Jun 6, 2019 | US & World
…under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. They were brought into the United States as children and are seeking citizenship. With 237 to 187 vote, the House OK’d…