DACA Participants Can Again Apply for Renewal, Immigration Agency Says

January 16, 2018
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The federal government said on Saturday that it would resume accepting renewal requests for a program that shields from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.

In a statement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services said that "until further notice," the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, "will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded" in September, when President Trump moved to end it.

The decision came after a federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction on Tuesday ordering the Trump administration to resume the DACA program.

Read more at The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/daca-renewals-requests.html