DACA program to go back to appeals court

When Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was unofficially terminated last September, Trump gave Congress six months to work out a deal to give recipients a path to citizenship. With the March deadline fast approaching, there is still no path to citizenship for the DACA recipients.

In the latest road block, the Supreme Court sent the Trump administration's appeal back to the appellate court. Now, it's up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to determine DACA's fate. With so much hanging in the balance, many young and undocumented immigrants are worried about deportation. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are deporting illegal immigrants in mass numbers. The sad thing is that most of these immigrants have no criminal record. Trump does not seem to care. If you are here illegally, you run a high risk of deportation.

With the administration currently focused on the Russian probe, it seems that nothing will be done. The main snarl is that Republicans want funding for a border wall to go with the DACA renewal. Democrats, on the other hand, want an opportunity for the recipients to become citizens. As long as the GOP controls the House and Senate, the DACA recipients will have to wait.

Under the current program, that former President Obama created by executive order, children who were brought here illegally by their parents can apply for work permits as long as they maintain good standing with the federal government. Currently, most of the recipients are in school pursuing an education that will lead to a job. Denying these people a path to citizenship will only hurt the economy.

According to SFGate.com, the Supreme Court won’t render a decision until June of 2019, which means another year and a half of uncertainty for DACA recipients

In the meantime, the court action “provides us protection from Trump’s deportation force,” Eliana Fernandez, a DACA recipient and a plaintiff in the New York lawsuit, said in a conference call by supporters of the program. Fernandez, who entered the United States at age 14 and now is a homeowner, legal services worker and a mother of two U.S. citizen children, called the president’s order “an attack on me, my family and my community.”
Established by former President Barack Obama’s executive order in 2012, DACA allows two-year reprieves from deportation and work permits to immigrants who entered the U.S. without authorization before age 16, have lived in the U.S. for at least five years, attended school or served in the military, and have no serious criminal records.
In September, Mr. Trump rescinded the program, calling it illegal. The current court ruling allows the program to continue for now. Legislation to prolong the program has stalled in Congress over the proposed border wall funding, which Trump is using as a means to get his way. Earlier this year, the Senate failed to pass five different bills relating to immigration reform.

Trump wants to build the border wall, eliminate chain migration, and make the country great again. What he is actually doing is bringing back the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. His racist agenda is specifically targeted toward minorities. By supposedly getting rid of these people, the white race will reign supreme.

Until a long-term proposal is worked out, DACA will remain tied up in the legal system, putting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants at risk of deportation.