DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “Trinity Washington University, a few miles from the White House, is lining up donors to boost scholarships for about 10% of its students—immigrants who likely can’t afford tuition if they lose their permission to work in the U.S…
A March 5 deadline is looming for Washington to come up with a resolution for nearly 700,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and currently protected from deportation. The young people, their schools and employers are beginning to make contingency plans in case they have to leave the country, or face unemployment. Others are putting plans for career changes on hold, or moving back home with their parents, immobilized by political paralysis on immigration.
For months, Congress has been unable to resolve the fate of immigrants protected from deportation under an Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. President Donald Trump ended DACA in September, and gave Congress six months to come up with a solution. On Tuesday, a second federal judge ordered the administration to temporarily restore the program. The Supreme Court could announce as early as Friday whether it will take up the issue.
The Senate is debating immigration proposals this week. If there is no deal on DACA by the deadline, the program will end when the last work permit expires.”
-Alicia A. Caldwell, “As DACA Deadline Looms, Young Immigrants Plan for the Unknown,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 14, 2018 05:30am