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The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an immigration program that has benefited about 800,000 immigrants.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been a vehement critic of the program since his days as US Senator made the announcement, saying that the program will be phased out in six months.
DACA was launched as an executive order by former president Barack Obama in 2012. The program benefits young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children (DREAMers). It offers them temporary relief from deportation and work permits that are renewable every two years.
The administration announced that the program will be phased out in six months. Applications for new DACA recipients will not be accepted starting today, but those already sent by September 5th will be accepted. Current DACA recipients whose work permits expire by March 5th have until March 5th, 2018 to renew them. Those whose work permits expire on March 6th or later will not be eligible to renew them, as no applications will be accepted after March 5th.
The administration says it has given the six month period before the phase out in order to give Congress time to work on a bill that permanently addresses DREAMers. Unless Congress passes such a bill within six months, those currently protected under DACA will be eligible to deportation once their permits expire.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump pledged to end the DACA program once he took office, calling it a form of “amnesty.”
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Just me, I think you are missing the point.The issue here is should those kids who were brought here as children without documentation/illegally be deported or not.That's what it is in a nutshell.
Now consider,Makambo Sekeseko Kuku, who was brought here at age 6,and now he is 25. He has never been to congo the origin of his parents...Has gone to school in USA, does not know lingala,kiswahili,and french,languages of his parents.He has never met his congolese relatives.His parents are here illegally.Makambo is a very bright student,and hopes to be a doctor.He is not dreaming of congo.Now you if you send him there,are you not destroying chances of him becoming what he is aspiring to be?Sure he may go to congo,become a politician,and eventually a president.
My take is that he is an "american" for all practical purposes.Give his achance to have papers saying -he is an american.Right now Makambo can hardly concentrate on his studies with all those nightmares of war,and poverty,and lawlessness in the jungles of congo.Hopefully DACA will be replaced with something better.
I also think that scraping DACA essentially targets people from south america who crossed into usa illegally.If there were kids from France, germany,Britain I hardly doubt that this law DACA would be scrapped.
Remember what Trump said about mexicans...thieves rapists,gangs...
I concur with all you say @maxiley.... but why I say that is because if push comes to shove, it's not only in the US where one can make it....to some extent I even think american life for most youth is 'risky' (for lack of a better word). For the few who have gone to school properly, they can still work elsewhere. I think it is for the older people it would be worse
Just me, I think you are missing the point.The issue here is should those kids who were brought here as children without documentation/illegally be deported or not.That's what it is in a nutshell.
Now consider,Makambo Sekeseko Kuku, who was brought here at age 6,and now he is 25. He has never been to congo the origin of his parents...Has gone to school in USA, does not know lingala,kiswahili,and french,languages of his parents.He has never met his congolese relatives.His parents are here illegally.Makambo is a very bright student,and hopes to be a doctor.He is not dreaming of congo.Now you if you send him there,are you not destroying chances of him becoming what he is aspiring to be?Sure he may go to congo,become a politician,and eventually a president.
My take is that he is an "american" for all practical purposes.Give him achance to have papers saying -he is an american.Right now Makambo can hardly concentrate on his studies with all those nightmares of war,and poverty,and lawlessness in the jungles of congo.Hopefully DACA will be replaced with something better.
I also think that scraping DACA essentially targets people from south america who crossed into usa illegally.If there were kids from France, germany,Britain I hardly doubt that this law DACA would be scrapped.
Remember what Trump said about mexicans...thieves rapists,gangs...
At least he should have let the congress finish up with a permanent solution for dreamers before ending the program..watch the confusion that Will follow
Just me now ur talking like 5 maumau leaders.I was in laikipia do u know I met 7 Australian,12 Americans,7 brits,some Germans Italians n they r confortable living there n they don't have much.They have nice houses which they told me if they lived in their countries there is no way they could afforded that.They breed horses,cows m sell to farmers in Africa n west.My diaspora guys when I tell u to go back home coz of opportunities there u call me shit names.But hamtasema hamkuambiwa.U will find Kenya imengawanywa when u ati reach 75 yrs to retire ndio uenjoy 1000$ 401k.Work smart guys
Who gave you the task of being a spokesman for the diaspora community. Just because you could not make it in the USA does not mean that everyone in the same situation. Ongea yako, wachana na mambo ya watu wengine na uwache kujifanya juaji.
Who said Dreamers can only dream in the US? The times that US used to be 'IT' is over... even them Americans are running away to other continents...ask Dubai and some African countries.