DHS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Saturday [1-13-18] that it would resume accepting renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, bowing for now to a federal court ruling that blocked an effort to end the Obama-era policy.
President Donald Trump said in September that he was ending DACA, which gives safe harbor from deportation and work permits to about 690,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers. He challenged Congress to replace the program with legislation offering similar protections, but lawmakers have so far been unable to agree on how.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the move, responding to multiple lawsuits challenging the decision. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that until the cases are completed, the administration must consider renewal applications from immigrants who were enrolled in the program on Sept. 5, when Mr. Trump announced its end.
On Saturday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, which administers the program, said it would comply with the decision and ‘until further notice’ would resume accepting renewal applications from those people.
On Sept. 5, the administration gave people whose permits were expiring over the next six months until Oct. 5 to submit renewal applications, but many who were eligible didn’t do so by that time, for whatever reason. Advocates estimate that because of this, more than 100 people are losing DACA protections every day.”
-Laura Meckler, “U.S. Resumes Accepting DACA Renewals,” The Wall Street Journal online, Jan. 14, 2018 01:18am