DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals established by President Barack Obama in 2012 to give people who came to the US as minors the opportunity to stay and work. The government's obviously up and running again, but there's still no permanent DACA plan on the horizon. All of a sudden, we're talking about whether immigration is still a fundamental part of our country,. And this is today Explained.
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a decision on DACA. This keeps the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on life support for a few more months, but also keeps its 690,000 recipients in limbo: Do they stay or do they go? Congress still hasn’t been able to pass a vote on DACA. Vox’s Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias say that’s because Trump has moved the conversation into unfamiliar territory: from illegal immigration to legal immigration.
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