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Report: DACA program growing




April 3, 2018

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After a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restart the Obama-era DACA program, over 64,000 illegal immigrant “Dreamers” have applied to renew their status, according to numbers the government released on Tuesday.

The Washington Times reports: About half of them have already been approved, with the others pending, according to the data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

All told, nearly 694,000 people were being protected from deportation under the DACA program as of last week.


The numbers suggest significant interest in the program, which President Trump tried to cancel last year, announcing a six-month phaseout he hoped would pressure Congress to come up with a more permanent solution for the Dreamers.

The administration was ordered by a federal judge in California and another judge in New York to restart the program and allow those who’d already applied before to apply for renewals. No first-time applications are allowed.

The Times continues: DACA grants a two-year amnesty from deportation and allows Dreamers to get work permits, which then allow them to get Social Security cards, apply for driver’s licenses and access some taxpayer benefits.

President Obama announced the program, known officially as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, in 2012, and since then nearly 815,000 people have been approved. Of those, some have found other more permanent legal status, while others have left the country or dropped out of the program, and several thousand were kicked out for criminal behavior — leaving 694,000 people covered as of March 31.
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