DACA

For the last 10 years, people who came here as children but have no legal status could live relatively normal lives through a program called DACA. Its future — and theirs — remains unclear.

‘Dreamers,' long a symbol of immigrant youth, are increasingly easing into middle age as eligibility requirements have been frozen since 2012, when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was introduced.

As a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Melani Candia did not qualify for federal aid when she was at the University of Central Florida.

VIDEO: 10 years after DACA, “Dreamers” remain in legal limbo 10 years after it was first enacted, DACA’s future is more uncertain than ever. (Alexa Lorenzo, WFTV.com/WFTV)ORLANDO, Fla. — June 15 this year marks 10 years since President Barack Obama enacted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Policy, or DACA. However, a decade after it changed the lives of immigrants across the country, the program remains in limbo. READ: 3 Central Florida residents arrested in connection with Capitol breachMelani Candia is a DACA recipient who remembers clearly the day the program was established. The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an appeal to the ruling on DACA.

The first “Dreamer” to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship is finally poised to attend the University of Oxford after years of uncertainty about whether the U.S. would allow him to return home as a DACA recipient. Federal immigration officials last week approved Jin Park’s application to travel to England in the coming weeks, according to his law firm WilmerHale in Boston. Park, whose family immigrated from South Korea when he was 7 years old, will be joined at Oxford by Santiago Potes, a Miami resident and 2020 graduate of Columbia University in New York who became the second American on DACA status to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship last November, according to the Rhodes Trust.

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Joe Biden said the United States Department of Justice will appeal a recent Federal Court ruling before the weekend that ruled the Federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program illegal. The program, put in place by the Obama administration in 2012, protects “Deamers” who were brought to the United States as children and allows them to stay in the country. “The DACA program has allowed a lot of folks like me to be able to do better than their parents,” Ortiz said. “When you ask the question, ‘Is America is still the land of opportunity?’ one of key examples is programs like this one.”Yesterday’s Federal court ruling is deeply disappointing. — President Biden (@POTUS) July 17, 2021In December, a federal judge in New York restored the program, only to see it undone by an order last week in Texas.

Ruling allows immigrants already protected through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to keep it.

12/23: CBSN AM President Trump delays signing of $900 billion relief bill; Federal judge has yet to rule on future of DACA

It was a historic and powerful day on Capitol Hill as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Trumps efforts to end protections for young immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program Thursday. The program covers people who have been in the United States since they were children and are in the country illegally. According to the AP, young immigrants will retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United States. The American Dream means that if you play by the rules and work hard, you can make it in America, and Im thrilled to see the Supreme Court agree, Demings said in a statement. On Monday, the Supreme Court also ruled that its illegal to fire people because theyre gay or transgender.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have been uniformly critical of the immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, who was elected after promising to crack down on illegal immigration and bolster enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border. REUTERS/Leah MillisHere is a look at the immigration positions of Trump and the leading Democratic candidates looking to take him on in the November election. Biden would end workplace immigration raids and stop enforcement actions at schools, medical facilities and houses of worship. Warren would eliminate privately owned immigration detention facilities and only detain those who pose a flight or safety risk. Steyer backs a pathway to citizenship for people in the United States illegally and says he would reform ICE and CBP.

Chief Justice John Roberts, though, who has at times split with his fellow conservatives in cases involving the Trump administration's executive actions, could be unpredictable. Later in the argument, Kavanaugh chided California's solicitor general, Michael Mongan, for suggesting that the administration did not carefully consider its rationale for ending DACA. The justices also pressed Francisco on the shifting explanations for ending DACA. If the reason for ending DACA was policy and not law, she said, then the administration would have to own the consequences of ending it. Francisco said that the Trump administration did.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - "Living Undocumented" is a passionate piece of advocacy filmmaking, one that -- for all the tears and heart-wrenching moments -- will likely end up preaching to the choir. The Netflix presentation nevertheless puts faces on the toll of US immigration policy, while making a point of noting the role of past administrations as well as the current one. Although most of the families come from Mexico and Central America, others have roots in Israel, Africa and Laos. While it would be nice to think that the personal tales chronicled in "Living Undocumented" might contribute to a thoughtful discussion of immigration policy, that doesn't seem to be the world in which any of us are living. "Living Undocumented" premieres Oct. 2 on Netflix.