Representative Delia Ramirez (D-ill.) Deposceses at a press conference with immigration experts, DACA recipients and dreamers to mark the 13th anniversary of the Delayed Action Program for Children’s Arrivals (DACA) in Washington, DC on June 11, 2025.
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More than three dozen Democratic and independent senators ask the Ministry of the Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, to clarify the position of the agency on beneficiaries of the delayed action program for children’s arrivals.
Also known as DACA, the program was created in 2012 to protect themselves from deportation children who arrived illegally in the country before 2007 and now benefit from half a million people.
The letter, shared exclusively with NPR, comes in response to a DHS Declaration at NPR Earlier this summer, who said that “illegal foreigners claim to be delayed action for children’s arrivals (DACA) are not automatically protected against deportations” and that “DACA did not confer any form of legal status in this country”. DHS assistant press secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, in the press release, then encouraged people here illegally to self-conform.
Senators argue that politics are stealing from the proper advice of the DHS, which stipulates that those who have deferred the action of the application of immigration are “not considered illegally present” in the United States, the policy also stipulates that anyone who has received deferred action is authorized by the DHS as being in the United States for the duration of the period of delayed action “.
“In fact, the DACA has been created to provide protections against immigration application for certain non-citizens brought to the United States as a child, also known as Dreamers, who undergo checks of strict history and meet the specific requirements of education or work,” wrote the senators.
The DACA program is supposed to offer Temporary expulsion protection But is not an immediate path to citizenship or a green card. Participants in the program must renew their protection every two years.
Election Made on the last five have shown Most Americans Support the creation of a legal path for the recipients of the DACA. In the past, the defenders of immigration considered the DACA as a bipartisan support, although there was concerns raised in the temporary nature of the program.
The Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, a classification member of the Senate Judicial Committee, presented the Dreams Act for several years, which would provide a way to legalization. The measurement has received different levels of GOP support in both rooms.
The DHS call to DACA recipients to self-conform is another example of a mixed message in the administration’s immigration application policy with regard to the DACA.
At the start of the 2024 presidential campaign, the deputy chief of staff of the White Chamber, Stephen Miller, said President Trump would end the program. After winning the elections, Trump said He wanted the DACA beneficiaries to remain.
Since then, there have been several arrests and deferences reported by the beneficiaries of the DACA, in particular that of A handicapped man without criminal historySomeone who made an accidental bad turnsAnd someone with a civil offense.
The DHS can revoke DACA protections if someone is accused of a crime, which would make them vulnerable to expulsion.
In the United States, around 500,000 DACA beneficiaries are DACA beneficiaries in the second quarter of this year, more than 150 countries. The majority come from Mexico, Salvador and Guatemala, according to the American services of citizenship and immigration. Most beneficiaries are 35 or less, but some are late 30 or in the early 1940s.
