DREAMERS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Maricruz Abarca learned three years ago that she had been given the legal right under a U.S. government program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to work in the United States and avoid deportation, she started to cry. After years of living illegally in the shadows after moving to the United States from Mexico at age 15 to join relatives in New Jersey, she finally could make concrete plans for the future…Abarca is one of roughly 660,000 people, dubbed ‘Dreamers,’ covered by DACA, which was created to protect immigrants who entered the United States illegally or overstayed a visa as children. DACA was implemented in 2012 by Democratic President Barack Obama. Republican President Donald Trump in 2017 moved to rescind the program, though he was blocked by various court rulings…But Abarca’s status – along with all the others protected by DACA – is under threat.”
–Lawrence Hurley, “Forsaken by Trump, immigrant ‘Dreamers’ seek U.S. Supreme Court reprieve,” Reuters, November 8, 2019 3:24 am