By Giselle Alexandra Ormeno
The unexpected ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, the ruling in favor of the "Dreamers" instead of President Trump, is not stopping the Trump Administration from stalling the hopes and dreams of the "Dreamers."
On Tuesday, July 28, it was announced that the Trump Administration would not accept new DACA applications for the Obama-era program that protects certain undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from being deported.
The acting Homeland Security Secretary, Chad Wolf, wrote in a memo that immigrants who already had protections would be permitted to renew their status under the program for one year instead of two. According to the CNN article, the memo intends to replace the initially established DACA in 2012, and also stated that first-time applicants to the DACA program would be rejected.
President Trump has repeatedly attacked DACA as part of his anti-immigration agenda that he promised his base he will keep, but three years in and has not been able to end the program as Trump assured he would.
In a news briefing, Trump declared that he's going to "work with a lot of people on DACA," when asked about last Tuesday's announcement, according to CNN.
Trump added that they will make the DACA happy and that they are going to come up with a great "merit-based immigration system."
However, the decision described by the Trump administration will place even more limits on people already inside the DACA program and exclude a large number of "Dreamers" that may be eligible have not yet applied.
According to the New York Times, immigrants’ right groups see the revised memo as the first step toward eliminating DACA as a whole. Something to add is that this move by Trump's administration could energize Trump's entire base by implying that DACA can cease from existing.
In June, a Pew Research Center poll found that about three-quarters of U.S. adults favor granting permanent legal status to immigrants who came illegally to the United States when they were children. The most robust support, according to the poll, comes from Democrats and Hispanics.
The Pew Research Center adds at the end of 2019, around 649,000 immigrants have work permits and protection from deportation under DACA.
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