'Dreamers' are increasingly easing into middle age as eligibility requirements have been frozen since 2012, when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was introduced.
Over the past 10 years, DACA has faced many legislative challenges, but recipients of the program are continuing to fight for one goal: a pathway to citizenship.When Juliana Macedo do Nascimento signed up for an Obama-era program to shield immigrants who came to the country as young children from deportation, she enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles, transitioning from jobs in housekeeping, child care, auto repair and a construction company.
The oldest recipients were in their early 30s when DACA began and are in their early 40s today. At the same time, fewer people turning 16 can meet a requirement to have been in the United States continuously since June 2007. Born out of President Barack Obama's frustration with Congress' failure to reach an agreement on immigration reform, DACA was meant to be a temporary solution and many saw it as imperfect from the start. Immigration advocates were disappointed the policy didn't include a pathway to citizenship and warned the program's need to be renewed every two years would leave many feeling in limbo.
"The president told us, 'How do we preserve and fortify DACA? How do we ensure the security of the program and how best to do that?' and this was the determination that was made after a lot of thought and careful consideration," Jaddou said Monday in Los Angeles. The executive branch has "neither the authority to decide the major questions that DACA addresses, nor the power to confer substantive immigration benefits," the states wrote.
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