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The Trump administration says it will deny new applications for so-called “Dreamer” immigrants and limit renewals to one year instead of two

Yamis Wadood, a Yale law student and member of the university’s worker and immigration rights clinic, speaks on the dire financial impact if Dreamers were suddenly not allowed to work.

The Supreme Court decision defending Dreamers was just the latest twist in a long battle over undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. But how did the DACA program begin in the first place? And what happens next? Emily Tisch Sussman, legal expert and host of the podcast Your Primary Playlist, breaks it down.

DACA expert Jon Greenbaum explains the history of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
and why the ultimate fate of ‘Dreamers’ remains unresolved.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will renew his administration’s effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after the Supreme Court blocked the first try. In a tweet Friday morning, Trump said, “The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They “punted” much like in a football game (where hopefully they...

Gabriela Cruz, a DACA recipient, and Daihana Estrada, whose parents were deported, explain how the uncertainty of living with an undocumented status affects people personally.

The U.S. Supreme Court has kept alive, for now, the Obama-era the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that allows immigrants brought here as children to work and protects them from deportation. The high court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration attempted to end the program improperly in 2017. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero reports there’s a sense of...

The U.S. Supreme Court has kept alive, for now, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA. The high court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration attempted to end the program improperly when it announced it was rescinding it in 2017. NBC 5 political reporter Julie Fine reports on lawmakers’ reactions to the decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the 2012 program that protects immigrants who were brought to the country as children and allows them to work. The court on Thursday ruled President Donald Trump didn’t properly end the the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in 2017. Immigration attorney Fernando Dubove talks about what the decision means and what’s next.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants.

Kassandra Aleman, 26, just got the news she was waiting for — and now has the green light to apply to law school. “I’m over the moon right now!” said Aleman, a deputy training director for the Texas Democratic Party and a DACA recipient. “Just knowing that I can move forward with my life for the time being gave me…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Trump Administration could not end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, citing a failure by the Department of Homeland Security to give an adequate justification for the termination.

The Supreme Court is taking up the Trump administration’s plan to end legal protections that shield 660,000 immigrants from deportation, a case with strong political overtones amid the 2020 presidential election campaign.

A Mesa Airlines flight attendant, who as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient is barred from traveling outside the United States under the Trump administration’s rules, was released from immigration detention Friday after being taken into custody when she returned to the U.S. on a flight from Mexico that she had worked. Selene Saavedra Roman, 28, who works...

He became the first “Dreamer” to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, but for recent Harvard University graduate Jin Park, the joy of that achievement has given way to uncertainty. The 22-year-old, who lives in New York City, risks not being allowed back in the country if he enrolls at the University of Oxford in England in the fall.

Leslie Silvia wanted her father to see her before she graduated from high school.

The morning before the 50th anniversary of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s assassination, an inter-faith group of religious leaders and followers will board a charter bus in Dallas and set off for a road trip through the south.

Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday the White House encourages the Senate to bring an immigration bill to the floor that includes specifics on border security and limiting “chained migration.” She added that President Donald Trump intends to lead on the issue.

Here is where DACA stands on the day it was set to expire:

President Trump drew both cheers and boos during the State of the Union as he outlined his administration’s key pillars for immigration reform.