Roughly 800,000 undocumented youth stand to lose their ability to work, learn, and live in the United States following the Trump administration's decision to end the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
That announcement, delivered Tuesday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, unleashed dread and panic in communities around the country as the program's recipients, often known as "Dreamers," began grappling with a new political reality.
The program will be phased out starting March 5, 2018, unless Congress replaces it with comparable legislation — a task the dysfunctional House and divided Senate hardly seem prepared to accomplish. Read more...
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