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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 30, 2017, 11:10:58 am

Title: ‘Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened
Post by: rangerrebew on August 30, 2017, 11:10:58 am

‘Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened
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By MIRIAM JORDANAUG. 27, 2017
 

Jessica Rojas beat poverty to put herself through engineering college, where she collected accolades for academic achievement. After graduating last year, Ms. Rojas, who grew up in Chicago, was hired by a utility company to help modernize the city’s electrical grid.

But her life could soon be upended in a showdown over a five-year-old initiative, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which has granted permission to stay and work to about 800,000 immigrants like Ms. Rojas who were brought illegally to the United States as children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/politics/dreamers-trump-lawsuit.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FIllegal%20Immigration&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

Title: Re: ‘Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened
Post by: Fishrrman on August 31, 2017, 01:22:22 am

Hopefully, it will be more than just threatened -- and closed down altogether.