DHS urges DACA to report self

The Trump administration is transferring its accent on how to deal with immigrants who brought to the United States as children under the postponement program to reach childhood. Also known as DACA, the program was created in 2012 to protect children who illegally arrived in the country before 2007.

In recent months, the administration has tried to strip 525,000 DACA beneficiaries, also known as Dreamers, of benefits, although there are no organizational changes to end the program.

For example, Department of Health and Human Services He said he would make the DACA beneficiaries not qualified for the Federal Health Care Market in June. Then last week, The Ministry of Education said it is looking at five universities Which provides financial assistance to DACA. Also, immigration enforcement employees arrested and detained DACA beneficiaries throughout the country, which immigrant defenders have said weakened the protection of this group.

"Illegal foreigners who claim to be received from the postponed procedures for expatriates in childhood (DACA) are not automatically protected from deportation," The assistant journalist at the Ministry of National Security, Tricia McLeulin, said in a statement to NPR. "DACA does not give any form of the legal status in this country."

McLeulin added that any DACA recipient may be detention and deportation for several reasons, including if they commit a crime. Then McLAGHLIN urged the recipient to report self.

"We encourage each person illegally to benefit From this offer He kept the opportunity to return to the United States in the correct legal way," McLeulin said.

Another mixed message to the DACA recipient sends another mixed message in the policy of enforcement of immigration in administration. At the beginning of the 2024 presidential campaign, Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff of the White Parliament, said. President Donald Trump will end the program. After winning the elections, Trump said He wanted to keep the DACA receivers.

"We have known that Daca is still a temporary program. We started warnings about that," Annabel Mendoza, Director of Communications at United, said, a immigrant youth organization, “said Annabel Mendoza, Director of Communications at United, said a immigrant youth organization. "What we see now is that Daca is cut."

What is DACA protection?

DACA offers Temporary protection from deportation But it is not an immediate path to citizenship or a green card. Participants in the program must renew their protection every two years.

It provides a work permit and can be modified if someone leaves the United States and returns with a visa or marries an American citizen, among other options.

When created under Obama’s management, the program took qualified children "Outside the migration enforcement system," Claire McNulati, a former immigration and customs enforcement official who worked in the department when DACA was created. McNuli was later appointed by former President Joe Biden as the position of chief adviser to American citizenship and immigration services.

"If someone is eligible to obtain DACA, this may mean that they will be released from detention or their case in the Immigration Court system, it will be administratively closed so that they can follow this type of administrative relief," McNuli said.

Nearly 500,000 DACA recipients – who are calculated as of the second quarter of this year – are more than 150 countries. The majority of Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala, according to USCis. Most beneficiaries are 35 years old or less, but some are late 30s and the early 1940s.

So far there has been no effort by this second Trump administration to cancel the program, Trump also tried in his first term. A lawsuit submitted by Texas challenges the protection of the program from deportation and work permits Participants in the state.

"The idea that it does not provide protection is simply wrong," Thomas A. Sinz, President and General Adviser to the US -Mexican US Legal and Educational Defense Fund, adding that there are reasons that DACA can be canceled from an individual, including accusing him of a crime, which makes it vulnerable to deportation.

Other lawyers refer to violations such as driving under the influence of alcohol as a cause that DACA can be canceled and protected.

Sinz said that DACA should provide protection from falling into a random or targeted migration agents for arrest in the street.

He said that if the administration wants to take steps to change this, you will need to make a change base of a proposed base with the federal registry, or at least mention this position, and none of them has been taken. But it seems that the administration has a broader approach to enforcing immigration that sweeps the daca recipients.

"The reported arrests have been reported by DACA beneficiaries who have other DACA beneficiaries are very worried and we have heard of them from them," Sinz said.

Execution incidents lead to fear

In March, officials deported Evenezer Cortez Martinez, a DACA recipient in Missouri, to Mexico.

He was It is allowed to return after two weeks. In California, the beneficiaries of DACA were held after a The work raid and Mistricate cross, turn off the highway. In Florida, DACA recipient was among the first to hold in his conversation recently The Evergelds detention center opened.

"This administration is very strict on how to apply all the law and how they explain all the law. At least Daca used to be a more sympathetic topic with politics," Maria Kiruja, a migration lawyer and has drain agents from Daca. "This sympathy is now less and less."

Opinion polls I was conducted during another Five years It has shown Most Americans Supporting the creation of a legal path for DACA beneficiaries. Regarding the policy of immigration policies in Trump in general, 43 % agrees to deal with the case so far, according to the latest. NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll It was published earlier this month.

Rina Monteoya is the founder of Aliento, a non -profit organization that supports the beneficiaries of Daca and other immigrants, and is the DACA herself. She has participated in the call to DACA since 2010. Now 34, she said she spent most of her adult life to call for the program.

"The rotating ship was between the three branches of the government," Montoya said, adding that mixed messages from the administration add fear. "My livelihood and ways to live a lot of dreamers are at stake and we can be deported to countries that we do not really know or do not call home."

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