The federal government is expected to re -accept new applications for a program that gives some people the ability to live and work in the United States without the status of legal immigration.
Lawyers The federal government and immigrant advocates have presented plans to a federal judge who will open the door again to accept the application for the childhood arrival program, otherwise known as DACA.
A state – Texas, where the case is being heard – however, will be exempted from providing work permits.
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people may be eligible to be enrolled in DACA, once an order can be issued to formalize the schemes fixed by a federal judge. Department of Justice In the legal filing done on Monday. Program is built under Obama Administration gives grants to people without the status of legal immigration, who were brought to the country for two years by their parents, leaving an indescribable permit to live and work in the US.
The program has allowed people who were brought to the United States as children temporarily live in the country and receive work permits. It does not provide legal status, but provides protection from exile.
Eligibility requirements include people who entered the country as children before their 16th birthday, were under 31 years of age till June 15, 2012, and have not been convicted of hooliganism, a significant rape or three misdemeanors. There will be restrictions related to work permits for those living in Texas, which filed a case against the DACA program in 2018.
Nothing changes yet
DOJ Attorney on Monday, US District Judge Andrew S. The proposal was made to Henn, which was as part of the ongoing trial in Texas. This will allow American citizenship and immigration services to take new and renewal applications for DACA across the country, which he has not done for four years.
In Texas, USCIS DACA will take new and renewable applications for the program, but recipients living in the state will not get work permits.
Lawyers representing DACA recipients proposed to add a wind-down period that would allow Texas to maintain their functioning authority for another renewal period.
These proposals follow the decision before the 5th US Circuit Court of appeals, allowing the program to continue with work permit carvings in Texas.
The federal government and lawyers have two more opportunities for DACA recipients to file reactions to the proposals submitted this week in October. Houston located in Houston will then decide what proposals or combinations of proposals to implement in their order.
Recruit for caution
Immigrant advocates are not yet celebrating, but believe that thousands of programs may be eligible. According to 2023 estimates from the Migration Policy Institute, more than 533,000 which are already enrolled in DACA, around 1.1 million people can be eligible across the country.
People The desired to apply was urged to start preparations. “When we are still waiting for an official decision, we believe that our communities and families should be prepared and start collecting the necessary documents.”
Other advocates are carefully optimistic. Juliana Macedo pointed a segment in the government’s proposal to the Du Dream, a spokesman of the United V Dream that may indicate the changes. The government’s proposal stated on Monday, “,” These proposals do not limit DHS with the change of any future law in DACA. “
Macedo Do Nessmento said on Wednesday, “We should be able to see it in a full picture compared to the case, as we are closing the administration and removing the DACA recipients.”