Topic
Deferred Action
217 published works
The Asylumist
Asylum for People With Serious Medical Conditions
By Jason Dzubow
In the latest outrageous move against non-citizens, the Trump Administration seems to be eliminating a long-standing program that allows people with serious medical conditions and their caregivers to remain in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court Orders Trump Administration to Accept New DACA Applications — Ruling Stayed for 90 Days
Going beyond the injunctions entered by other district courts, Judge John D. Bates (D.D.C.) held in this ruling that the Trump administration must accept new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…
Immigration View
DACA Injunction: Renewals Continue For Now
On January 9, 2018, U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California granted an injunction that resulted in provisional relief for current DACA recipients by allowing them…
PrawfsBlawg
The Legality of Rescinding DACA With Minimal Reason-Giving: When are incomplete legal arguments “Arbitrary and Capricious”?
Main Thursday, January 11, 2018The Legality of Rescinding DACA With Minimal Reason-Giving: When are incomplete legal arguments "Arbitrary and Capricious"?Adam Cox, Marty Lederman, and Cristina Rodriguez have offered four paragraphs…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Deferred Action and the Discretionary State: Migration, Precarity and Resistance
Susan Bibler CoutinDeferred Action and the Discretionary State: Migration, Precarity and Resistance Susan Bibler Coutin, Sameer M. Ashar, Jennifer M. Chacón , Stephen Lee AbstractIn the United States, the lives of…
EB-5 Insights
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Announces the Rescission of DACA
On Sept. 5, 2017, Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump Administration will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA is a mode of temporary relief…
Inside Business Immigration
DHS Rescinds Memorandum Addressing Expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents
The Nov. 20, 2014 DAPA memorandum, which to date has not been implemented, directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) “to establish a process, similar to DACA, for exercising prosecutorial…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Why The Trump Administration Officially Declared DAPA to Be Dead and Let DACA Live Another Day
As ImmigrationProf previously reported, the latest word from the Trump administration is that DAPA is dead and DACA survives -- at least for the time-being. Hamed Aleaziz of the San…
Immigration Blog
Trump Administration Rescinds DAPA Program
By Forrest G. Read IV, Michael H. Neifach
DHS Secretary Kelly has rescinded DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanents). DAPA was meant to 1) provide undocumented parents of U.S. citizens or Green Card holders…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DAPA and DACA+ Rescinded by DHS Secretary Kelly