The decision not to accept new applications will likely face more legal challenges. (Representative)
Washington:
US President Donald Trump’s administration plans to allow so-called ‘dreamer’ immigrants to renew deportation protections for a year while it reviews a Supreme Court ruling, a senior official said on Tuesday. responsible for administration.
The administration is preparing a new attempt to end the program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants living illegally in the United States from deportation after entering as children – a group often referred to as “Dreamers.”
The review follows a court ruling last month that found the administration erred in the way it decided to end the Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2017. DACA was set up by former President Barack Obama and currently some 644,000 immigrants are registered.
The administration plans to continue its current policy of not accepting new DACA candidates, a policy in place since 2017, the official told Reuters. But the administration will extend eligibility by one year for DACA immigrants whose deportation protection was due to expire, as long as they do not have a criminal record, the official said.
“For anyone who passes on, if they are eligible and were to expire, we will renew them on a case-by-case basis in the next year for an extension,” the official said.
The move means the program will remain in place until the November 3 presidential election, in which Trump fights for a second term against Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump has made his strong stance on legal and illegal immigration a central platform of his presidency and his re-election campaign for 2020, but DACA is a complicated issue for him due to growing public support for the program.
A February Reuters / Ipsos poll found that 64% of American adults polled supported the fundamentals of DACA. A similar poll from December 2014 found that 47% of American adults supported DACA.
The Supreme Court left the door open for Trump to try again to overturn the program, ruling only that the administration had failed to meet procedural requirements and that his actions were “arbitrary and capricious” under a law federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act.
The administration is due to file documents with Maryland District Court on Tuesday to clarify its plan.
The decision not to accept new applications will likely face more legal challenges.
The official said the administration will conduct “a comprehensive review” of the memos that the administration initially used to justify the end of the program.
“We will be looking at all of this and all of the underlying communications that informed these documents, so that when the administration acts on DACA soon, it will be anchored on this full review,” the official said.
The official said it was not clear how long the exam would take.
Trump, in an interview with Noticias Telemundo earlier this month, said he would soon unveil an immigration measure that he said would include some protections for DACA.
“We are working on the legal complexities at the moment, but I will be signing a very important immigration bill in the form of an executive order, which the Supreme Court now, due to the DACA ruling, has given me. given the power to do so. Trump said.
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