Immigration Law: DACA

NPR 4/18/17

NPR 3/8/17

How to apply for DACA from Homeland Security.

Cleveland - Marshall College of Law Library

Whitehouse.gov 6/18/24 Today’s announcement will allow individuals,
including DACA recipients and other Dreamers, who have earned a degree at an accredited U.S. institution of higher education in the United States, and who have received an offer of employment from a U.S. employer in a field related to their degree, to more quickly receive work visas.

Reuters 5/3/24. DACA recipients can enroll in the Marketplace and the Basic Health Program, but not Medicaid or CHIP.

Whitehouse.gov 9/17/21

The rule embraces the consistent judgment that has been maintained by the Department—and by three presidential administrations since the policy first was announced—that DACA recipients should not be a priority for removal.

Issued after the Univ. of Cal vs. DHS decision

June 12, 2012 DHS Memorandum Establishing the DACA Program

This memo supplements and amends the guidance stated in the June 15, 2012 DHS memo.

Supreme Court blocks rescission of DACA 6/18/20

11/8/18. 9th Cir. rules that DHS cannot summarily end DACA.

An expansion of DACA, called DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) was struck down by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

US Supreme Court affirmed striking of DAPA in a per curiam opinion on June 23, 2016.

A federal judge again declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program unlawful, though he refrained from ordering officials to terminate deportation protections and work permits for 580,000 immigrant "Dreamers."

2012 US Supreme Court case in which the court held that “a principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials”.

Edumed.org

Nov. 2019 USCIS. 12,968 of the offenses were immigration related.

App from ProBono.net

CNN 11/27/21 The problem of "Documented Dreamers".