DACA Recipients On Ten Years Of Precarious Protection
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
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Summary
President Obama called it a "temporary stopgap measure," at the time, but Congress hasn't passed any legislation in the intervening years to create permanent protection for the people covered by DACA.
Last year, a federal judge in Texas ruled the program is illegal, and the program is essentially frozen in place while the Biden administration appeals. Current DACA recipients can reapply, but the administration can't grant any new applications. NPR's Joel Rose reports that that has left roughly 80,000 DACA applications indefinitely on hold.
Two early DACA recipients and advocates for undocumented immigrants, Diana Pliego and Esder Chong, discuss how they view the program, on its tenth anniversary.
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| 0:34.2 | 10 years ago, this week, with a three-page memo, the Secretary of Homeland Security fundamentally |
| 0:44.8 | changed life for hundreds of thousands of people in this country. |
| 0:48.2 | This morning, Secretary Nipolitan will announce new actions. |
| 0:51.3 | My administration will take to mend our nation's immigration policy to the United States. |
| 0:57.2 | To make it more fair, more efficient, and more just. |
| 1:01.6 | Specifically, for certain young people, sometimes called dreamers. |
| 1:06.7 | From the White House Rose Garden, then President Obama announced the launch of a program |
| 1:11.3 | for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. |
| 1:15.0 | They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one, on paper. |
| 1:23.6 | The policy was called deferred action for childhood arrivals, DACA, as it's come to be known. |
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