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Immigration advocates have lobbied Democrats for weeks to pass a last-effort piece of legislation to give DACA recipients a permanent pathway to citizenship.

A decision on the legality of DACA - when it eventually goes to the U.S. Supreme Court - is not expected to be issued until 2024, and while Congress appears unlikely to take action, participants in the program are left uncertain if they will be protected from deportation. Read more»

Sharen Danny, a former citizen of Indonesia, was one of 25 people—hailing from 20 different countries—who took their oath of citizenship as part of a naturalization ceremony at Saguaro National Park West on July 4, 2022.

Twenty-five people from 20 different countries were sworn in as new United States citizens on Monday, July 4. They took their oaths as they gathered with their loved ones at Saguaro National Park for a naturalization ceremony. Read more»

Yenser Rivera Sabillon is living under a deportation order — issued the day after prosecutors were instructed not to pursue deportation in cases where immigrants had pending legal status applications, like his.

Under a new Biden policy, more than 100,000 immigrants could have their cases dropped. But that discretion is left to individual prosecutors, and many are letting the deportation machine roll on. Read more»

Protesters march past the Capitol in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. Fights over DACA have been a near-constant since it was first approved in 2012, along with judges and lawmakers repeatedly ordering the program stopped and restarted. A federal court this month overturned the program once more.

A federal judge’s ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful - the latest in a string of reversals and renewals - should have no practical impact on more than 600,000 covered immigrants for now, but it is sure to have an emotional impact. Read more»

Phoenix immigration attorney Daniel Rodríguez says he wants to know more about the political strategy President Joe Biden plans to put in place to help those who hope to get citizenship through this new plan.

President Joe Biden's plan to reform the U.S. immigration system includes preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and outlines a path to permanent residence and citizenship for its recipients, but some immigrants remain skeptical about the future. Read more»

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on deportations of some undocumented immigrants. Read more» 1

New citizens take the oath during a ceremony in Phoenix in January. Since then, citizenship ceremonies have been hit twice, first by COVID-19 shutdowns and then by cuts to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services budget.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have been extremely limited in their ability to function this year due to COVID-19 and severe budget cuts. Read more»

Hundreds in Tucson demonstrate in 2017 for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protected people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation for two years and gave them a work visa. DACA was ended by the Trump administration in 2017, however, legal challenges have kept the program alive.

A group of immigrants in New York have asked a federal judge to invalidate a July 28 memo that restricts DACA, and force the government to again process first-time applications, advance parole requests, and renewals under the terms of the original immigrant protection program. Read more»

Hundreds push for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protected people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation for two years and gave them a work visa. DACA was ended by the Trump administration in 2017, however, legal challenges have kept the program alive.

The Trump administration moved to roll back Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which currently protects about 644,000 'Dreamers' from deportation, in a move that flouts a federal court order that required new applications to be accepted. Read more»

The Trump administration has been trying to get rid of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program since September 2017, when this photo was taken of protestors outside of ICE headquarters in Phoenix. After several court losses, the administration was ordered Friday to start processing new DACA applications, but has not yet done so.

The federal government is currently not accepting new applications for protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, despite a federal court’s order Friday that it resume doing so. Read more»

Children seeking asylum at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, in May.

Their father was missing. Their mother was miles away. Two sisters, ages 8 and 11, were survivors of sexual assault and at risk of deportation. With the nation focused on COVID-19, the U.S. government is rushing the deportations of migrant children. Read more»

President Donald Trump said his executive order suspending some forms of immigration for 60 days is meant to protect jobs for American workers during COVID-19. But experts say it does little more than what has already been done to tighten immigration.

President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration in the face of the coronavirus will “not have much of an effect” on the jobs the president said he’s trying to protect, experts on both sides of the issue said last week. Read more»

The feds promised that information from DACA applications would not be sent to deportation agents. But internal emails show that ICE can access databases where that information is kept — and DHS decided not to tell Congress. Read more» 1

A young man fills out a form giving him DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, during a clinic in Tucson in Feb. 2017.

Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – known as DACA – recently received some welcome news: They can renew their DACA grant and employment authorization card using previously submitted biometrics. Read more»

A Border Patrol agent in the desert near Arivaca, Arizona.

For the first time since the enactment of the Refugee Act in 1980, people who come to the U.S. saying they fear persecution in their home countries are being turned away by Border Patrol agents with no chance to make a legal case for asylum. Read more»

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