Any new applications unlikely to be approved until court orders it or Trump administration ends program
In this June 18, 2020, file photo, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington.The U.S. government said Friday that it’s putting new DACA applications in a “pending” bucket while officials decide whether to again try to end the program for young immigrants, keeping enrolment stalled even though the Supreme Court ruled last month that it was improperly ended.
Immigrant advocates who sued the government over its attempt to end DACA say new rulings in the case, including the one by the Supreme Court, mean the government must resume accepting and considering first-time applications. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had only been accepting renewals for DACA recipients who were already enrolled by Sept. 5, 2017.DACA allows young immigrants who were brought to the country as children to legally work and shields them from deportation.
In the meantime, lawyers with the non-profit advocacy group Casa de Maryland, which filed one of the several lawsuits challenging the end of the program, say the Supreme Court ruling and two others mean DACA should revert to its original form – accepting new applications as well as requests to travel abroad, known as advanced parole.
But the lawyer, Stephen Michael Pezzi, said that in general the agency is accepting new applications, putting them on tentative status while the administration decides what to do with DACA.
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