Ten states have threatened to legally challenge the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program if the Trump administration doesn’t rescind it by a September deadline. The program was an Obama-era executive action that made two million unauthorized immigrant youth eligible for temporary relief from deportation, and now Congress is running up against the clock if it wants to act.
This week a new bi-partisan Dream Act was introduced in the Senate that by some estimates would make 1.8 million people immediately eligible for conditional legal status, protecting those who are currently benefiting from DACA.
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Randy Capps is Director of Research for U.S. Programs at the Migration Policy Institute, and has looked into the impact legislation like this could have if passed. He joins us now on KJZZ's The Show.
Fact sheet courtesy of the Migration Policy Institute.
