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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
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USCIS Notice Details Immigration Executive Action Steps
USCIS has issued a notice about the steps that it is taking to implement President Obama’s immigration executive action with regard to deferred action, provisional waivers and the modernization of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
USCIS Announces that Expanded DACA Available Feb. 18, 2015
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it will accept applications for expanded deferred action beginning on February 18, 2015; USCIS will not accept requests for expanded DACA before…
ImmigrationProf Blog
SOTU Guest Ana Zamora
Photo Ana ZamoraDREAMer Ana Zamora will be President Obama's guest at tonight's State of the Union. MSNBC has a nice profile of Zamora, who was born in Mexico and brought…
Immigration Blog
Obama’s Immigration Executive Action under Congressional Attack, but 12 States Defend the Policy
On January 14, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 236-191 to overturn Obama’s Executive Action Policy that calls for deferred deportation of millions of immigrants currently in the United…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DACA Recipients’ Educational Prospects Shaped by Differing Tuition and Financial Aid Policies, and Varying Levels of Legal and Other Support across U.S.
Given the wide differences in college costs and state policies regarding tuition and financial aid for unauthorized students, higher education opportunities for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Denies Stay in Arizona’s DACA Driver License Injunction
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe Supreme Court today denied an application for a stay from Arizona in Brewer v. Arizona Dream Act Coalition. …
ImmigrationProf Blog
Supremes Refuses to Stay Ninth Circuit Ruling Finding that Arizona Could Not Deny DACA Recipients Driver’s Licenses
SCOTUSblog reports that, over the dissents of Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, the Supreme Court today rejected Arizona’s request to allow it to deny driver’s licenses to young undocumented immigrants…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Law Professors Weigh In: It is Legal To Grant Deferred Action to Parents of DACA Recipients
Four legal scholars told the president in a letter that he can legally extend deferred action to the parents of recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. In the Nov.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Part of the Obama Plan: Expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program
As outlined in detail by the Department of Homeland Security, President Obama's recently announced immigration plan has quite a few components. One of the immigration initiatives is "Expand Deferred Action…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Face of DACA Expansion: Jose Antonio Vargas
Another important aspect of the president's new immigration action is the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA.On June 15, 2012, the president announced a new deferred action…