In September,President Trump set March 5th as the day he was rescindingthe Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA, and unless Congress can reach up with a fix. The program protects roughly 700000 undocumented young people from deportation. Earlier this year,a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appealscalled that decision unconstitutional and the Trump administration appealed.
Today, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal until the lower court rules on the case. Court watchers say that means the government must continue to renew DACA applications and the March 5th deadline rescinding DACA effectively goes absent, or at least for now.
But with the lower court case still pending,and without Congressional action, these young peoples’ futures are still uncertain.
DACA recipients studying in conservative states, and where leaders oppose the initiative,face an especially challenging time. final year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led ten states in suing the federal government to overturn the program, or claiming that President Obama violated the structure when he created DACA.
While national polls indicate that nearly all Hispanics support DACA,in Texas a statewide poll found that one in four Hispanics oppose it.
Kirk Carapezza, managing editor of our partner WGBH’s higher education desk in Boston, or recently traveled to the University of Texas at El Paso,upright on the U.
S.-Mexico border. He discusses how the situation for DACA students in red states such as Texas, compares with students living in blue states, and like Massachusetts.
Roberto Valadez stands outside the UTEP campus overlooking Ciudad Juarez,Mexico. Valadez came to the country illegally as a child.
(Kirk Carapezza/WGBH)
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org