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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Op-ed of the Day: Pratheepan Gulasekaram and Karthick Ramakrishnan on the Link between DACA and CA’s Driver’s License Law
Immigration law professor, Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law School, and Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DREAM 30 Deportees Seeks to Return to the United Statates
ColorLines reports that, following up on last month’s action by the Dream 9, a new, larger group of undocumented immigrants will attempt to return to the United States today. The…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Report: State Immigration Laws Rebound in 2013
Following a lull in 2012, the number of laws states passed related to immigration rebounded significantly in 2013, according to a new report from the National Conference of State Legislature’s…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Report Finds Successes and Challenges in the First Year of DACA
A new report released today by the Center for American Progress offers a nationwide analysis of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, finding that a year after its implementation,…
Connecting Justice Communities
New Mobile App Puts DACA Information at Young Immigrants’ Fingertips
By Karin Romans
On August 15th, Pro Bono Net and its partners in the Own the Dream Campaign, celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program…
ImmigrationProf Blog
“Pocket DACA” mobile app available
There is a new “Pocket DACA” mobile app, created by the Immigration Advocates Network, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Immigration Council, and Pro Bono Net as part of the Own…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DACA Turns One
Can you believe it? On August 15, 2012, the Obama administration implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) progfram. The Brookings Institution has a report on the program, which,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DACA Study: Country-of-Origin Variation in Application Rates
As the one-year anniversary of the Obama administration’s program providing a temporary reprieve from deportation for qualified unauthorized immigrant youth draws near, a new analysis by the Migration Policy Institute’s…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ICE Officers, Kris Kobach Challenge to DACA Dismissed
Julia Preston of the New York Times reports on the U.S. district court ruling yesterday dismissing a lawsuit by immigration officers seeking to halt the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Judge…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Support DREAMer Aime Castillo
Support this DREAMer, Aime Castillo, who is entering UC Davis School of Medicine. Aime was recently granted relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. KJ