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New Research Finds Few DACA Beneficiaries Pursuing Higher Education Immigration Blog (blog) An updated study by a Harvard University researcher again finds very mixed educational attainment for DACA recipients. Among the sampled population of DACA recipients, about 41 percent are enrolled in or have completed a college degree program and a ... View the full article

Lincoln Journal Star DACA, death penalty, checks & balances: Nebraska Supreme Court fields questions in Schuyler, chief justice's alma ... Lincoln Journal Star SCHUYLER — Delvan del-Cid stood at a microphone Friday morning facing the Nebraska Supreme Court from the familiar, glossy wood floor of the Schuyler High School gym — and the eleventh-grader had a question. “Do you think DACA is a breach of the ... View the full article

‘Dreamers’: DACA is good, but we need immigration reform WJTVView the full article

TAPinto.net Rutgers Partners with Dream Project, Offers Aid to DACA Students TAPinto.net NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Rutgers University has extended its association with a private agency assisting undocumented students covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and will accept those students on the New ... View the full article

KREM.com Local DACA recipient: 'I feel like the United States is my country' KREM.com SPOKANE, Wash. — Maria McCray is a so-called DREAMER who was brought the United States illegally from Mexico by her parents when she was a young girl. Fourteen years later, she and thousands of DACA recipients in Washington sit in limbo waiting ... View the full article

Left in limbo, DACA students navigate college life at UMN Minnesota Daily Last September, U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, but ongoing discussions in federal appeals courts have blocked the proposal so far — leaving DACA recipients in limbo. A recently published ... View the full article

Feds Defend DACA Rollback, DHS Memo At 2nd Circ. Law360 In a brief, the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys argued that the plaintiffs had failed in their consolidated challenge to the DACA rescission to state claims under the Administrative Procedure Act as well as under the Equal Protection and Due ... View the full article

Second Supreme Court Bid Likely in DACA Case Bloomberg Law A federal appeals court didn't take the Trump administration's bait in a case over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Justice Department earlier this month said it would make a second attempt to get the U.S. Supreme Court to hear ... View the full article

Kansas City Star Even though she can't vote, Frida Sanchez, 19, beats the streets to encourage others to vote Kansas City Star She is not an American citizen, even though since age 5 the only home Frida Sanchez, 19, has known is Kansas City. Sanchez, a DACA recipient, is working with The Kansas/Missouri Dream Alliance to encourage young Latinos to get out the vote. View the full article

Kansas City Star These young Hispanics who can't vote are encouraging those who can — but to what end? Kansas City Star A college student for now shielded by the federal umbrella known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), she is a civic-minded adult whose only home since age 5 has been around Kansas City, Mo. DACA grants children who came to the country ... View the full article

DHS Denied Her DACA Bid As Retaliation, Activist Claims Law360 Los Angeles activist Claudia Sarahi Rueda Vidal, who has lived in the United States since she was six, told a California federal court that the DHS had violated her constitutional rights, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act, by denying her DACA ... View the full article

Feds Defend DACA Rollback, DHS Memo At 2nd Circ. Law360 In a brief, the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys argued that the plaintiffs had failed in their consolidated challenge to the DACA rescission to state claims under the Administrative Procedure Act as well as under the Equal Protection and Due ... View the full article

Lansing State Journal ELFF: MSU prof films human side of DACA Lansing State Journal 15 of last year: President Trump was dumping DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the program that had patched up their lives five years earlier. Judicial rulings have kept DACA intact, albeit precariously. “I still live with the fear ... View the full article

CBS Los Angeles Cal State LA Student Sues DHS Over DACA Denial « CBS Los ... CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A Mexican woman and Cal State Los Angeles student has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security alleging that ... L.A. immigration activist files suit claiming DACA application was ...Los Angeles Times CSULA student, DACA activist sues government over ICE detention ...KABC-TV all 5 news articles » View the full article

NBC Southern California LA Immigration Activist Sues Homeland Security Over DACA Application NBC Southern California A 23-year-old Los Angeles immigration activist sued the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, alleging her application for DACA protection was rejected for political reasons. Claudia Rueda, a Cal State Los Angeles student who lives in Boyle Heights, ... View the full article

Axios Trump uses DACA to defend his planned birthright citizenship order Axios President Trump told reporters Wednesday that if President Obama could "do DACA, we can do this by executive order,” referring to his plan to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for immigrants who are not permanent residents of the U.S.. Trump Uses DACA To Support His Claim He Can End Birthright CitizenshipThe Daily Caller Trump: If Obama could start DACA via executive order, I can end birthright citizenship via executive orderHot Air Trump immigration executive order: President to terminate birthright citizenshipYouTube Axios all 4,961 news articles » View the full article

Letter to the editor: Casey & immigration Tribune-Review The irony of Casey's rejection of the bill is that he gave a speech the day before in the Senate praising and supporting DACA residents. He warned of economic damage and national security issues if they were deported. He criticized Trump for betraying ... and more » View the full article

Voice of America Trump Administration Seeks DACA Immigration Ruling Soon Voice of America The U.S. Department of Justice wants the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, by Oct. 31, or it will ask the Supreme Court to take up the case, the ... Justice Department hopes for Supreme Court DACA ruling by springNBCNews.com all 261 news articles » View the full article

USA TODAY MIDTERMS SPECIAL IMMIGRATION DACA Voice of America Since 2012, when former President Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or DACA, 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children have been able to work and live in the country under ... Far from US-Mexico border, immigration debate dominates many 2018 House racesUSA TODAY all 3 news articles » View the full article

The New Food Economy “I'd always worked in kitchens because without papers that's all I thought I could do.” The New Food Economy In 2014, he became a beneficiary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era initiative that shielded an estimated 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who arrived in this country before the age of 16 from deportation (that population ... View the full article

Start your Monday smart: Package bomb probe, World Series, DACA fate, Apple gadgets, Brazil votes WTMA (CNN) –. A man opened fire in a synagogue while shouting anti-Semitic slurs. Another is accused of killing two African-Americans after trying unsuccessfully to enter a predominantly black church. And a third, who referred to himself as a white ... and more » View the full article

DACA recipient helps register voters in Kansas City Jefferson City News Tribune KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Young voters ages 18-24 are the least likely to vote in midterm elections — just 16 percent of them cast ballots in 2014. Frida Sanchez wants to change that. For months, the 19-year-old Johnson County Community College student ... View the full article

USA TODAY Far from US-Mexico border, immigration debate dominates many 2018 House races USA TODAY In Arkansas, which is home to less than one percent of undocumented immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Republican Rep. French Hill and his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Clarke Tucker, spent a long ... and more » View the full article

The Western Journal DACA Man Sentenced to 35 Years After Little Girl Found Covered in Feces, Bound in Closet The Western Journal Francisco Javier-Rios Covarrubias, the monster who abused a 3-year-old child in Arizona was finally sentenced to serve 35 years in prison on Tuesday. The horrifying story was first reported in early 2016 when police found a girl bound inside a trash ... View the full article

Atlanta Magazine Report: DACA students still ambitious but increasingly anxious Education Dive The report strongly supports the DACA program, which was established in 2012 under the Obama administration to grant temporary legal status to young people that were illegally brought to the U.S. as children so they could study and work in the country. The bittersweet stories of Atlanta's DACA recipientsAtlanta Magazine all 3 news articles » View the full article