Dreamers and supporters rally at Memorial Park on DACA deadline day

“It’s estimated there are almost 3,400 young people in Nebraska who are part of the DACA program, known as ‘Dreamers”. Again, it leaves the fate of so-called Dreamers in limbo, including several thousand people here in Utah.

And the courts have yet to made a decision on whether DACA renewals must stop. If the courts hadn’t intervened, DACA holders were expected to begin losing status at a rate of almost 1,000 per day beginning March 6, based on when each individual’s permit expired.

Police used bolt cutters to split apart protesters shackled together with plastic tubing before leading them away for arrest. The deadline he set is here and we still do not have a solution for these Dreamers, for one simple reason: President Trump is standing in the way.

In September 2017, President Donald Trump directed an end to the program that delayed potential deportation of illegal aliens brought to the United States while still minors.

But lobbying against a permanent DACA fix or the Dream Act could be just as fierce from groups that want to limit all immigration. Now, we need the DREAM Act.

Marcelino said Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa is continuing to help with the renewal process and with the application fees. “They just can and will go after you”.

Several congressional Democrats and immigration advocates have warned that despite the court injunction, DACA recipients remain in legal uncertainty thanks to a crisis of Trump’s making. Some DACA holders who were offered an opportunity to renew under the original phase-out of the program failed to do so and began to lose their protections well before March 5.

In case we’ve forgotten, the executive order that has become known as DACA is literally the result of congressional inaction when it came to passing comprehensive & effective reforms to immigration which specifically sought to grant legal status to people who were brought to this country as children & infants without documentation and have likely known no other home.

He said the courts are unable to create temporary solutions, and he thinks the best solution would be for Congress to pass the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to become US citizens.

Hundreds of activists and Dreamers descended on Washington to press lawmakers into action. “They set one deadline and then they set another deadline and nothing has changed”.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders is blaming both parties for the failure, saying it’s “absolutely bad that Congress has failed to act”.

Rasha Mubarak, regional director of the Florida Council on American-Islamic Relations, said “we are exhausted of the lack of leadership, the lack of courage, the lack of American values”. The Chicago rally included singing and prayer, as well as testimonials from some of the state’s almost 40,000 DACA recipients. The move gave Congress six months to come to a deal and pass legislation on the issue. It does not. The acceptance of young people who have committed no crimes (a condition of DACA often overlooked by its critics), who have demonstrated their value to society, who desire so passionately to be citizens and believe in the American dream, in American ideals, makes us stronger, makes this a more productive and fruitful place, makes us a fairer, more tolerant society.