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‘Dreamers,’ DACA and Biden’s First Try on Immigration: What to Know

The young immigrants known in the US as Dreamers, and the federal program known as DACA that was designed to protect them from deportation, have dominated the fraught debate over immigration reform in Washington for the better part of a decade. President Joe Biden wants to put Dreamers on a fast track to citizenship. But nine states are suing to have DACA declared illegal, which could lead to these immigrants being kicked out of the country.............

.................In a case before a federal appeals panel in New Orleans, nine Republican-led states claim that a president can’t legally usurp congressional authority to set immigration policy or alter federal programs without following all required rule-making steps. They also complain that DACA grants federal benefits -- which the states must pay for -- to whole classes of people in the country illegally in violation of immigration law. Lawyers for the Biden administration argued that DACA complies with existing immigration law because agents retain discretion to reject specific applicants on a case-by-case basis, while focusing limited resources on expelling higher-priority offenders. They stressed in court papers that Dreamers’ ability to lawfully work, access employer health care, buy homes and pay property taxes reduces the financial burden on states to provide education and health services to undocumented immigrants.............................

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/dreamers-daca-and-bidens-first-try-on-immigration-what-to-know/2022/07/08/82b9cf4e-fed1-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html
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