U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up DACA Case

[BrooklynGuy]

Supreme Court Takes Up DACA

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases challenging the Trump administration’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. The program, established by President Obama in 2012, provides work authorization as well as protection against deportation to about 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, including many college students. Court watchers differed in their assessment of the arguments. Amy Howe, writing for SCOTUS blog, wrote that “it wasn’t clear how the case is likely to turn out. 

Read more: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/13/supreme-court-hears-arguments-daca

 

As Supreme Court takes up Trump plan to end DACA, American dreams at stake for nearly 700,000 immigrants

A lawyer, a teacher, a graduate student and an undergraduate gathered in a sixth-floor courtroom one recent afternoon to discuss their common dreams and nightmares. The dreams are of futures in the United States filled with college degrees and successful careers, home ownership and happy families. The nightmares are of losing their college loans, driver's licenses, jobs – and the only country they call home. "It feels, in a way, very surreal," said Anayeli Marcos, 25, who hopes to graduate from the University of Texas' flagship campus here in May with dual master's degrees in social work and Latin American studies. "Sometimes it's a bit overwhelming, feeling that your fate is in the hands of people who don't know you."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/11/supreme-court-hears-daca-challenge-700000-dreamers/2533001001/

 

 

[aztek]

it was never meant to be forever program, that is why it had an expiration date,  it is over now, that is all there is to it