Trump administration decides to phase out DREAM Act

Last month, California college student Miriam Juan stepped off a plane in Guadalajara, Mexico, and hugged her grandparents for the first time in 17 years.

Bryan Peña’s parents led a life in the margins.

Christopher Plascencia won a promotion last month to personal banker at Wells Fargo & Co.; now he’s worried the career advancement might become a hollow gain.

Soon after the Trump administration announced Tuesday morning that it was putting an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the team at Self-Help Graphics jumped into action.

Imagine if agents of the federal government showed up at your door and said you had to leave your friends, your family, your job and your country and move to whatever place your ancestors came from.

At President Trump’s rallies, he’s usually flanked by a pair of big blue placards displaying his administration’s proudest boast.

Dulce Puente, 27, didn’t have much time to worry about DACA Tuesday — she was busy cleaning out the home she shares with her husband and two sons, ages 5 and 3, which flooded with 4 feet of water during Hurricane Harvey.

For years, his schedule was unforgiving.

President Trump on Tuesday took action to strip away protections from deportation for roughly 800,000 people brought into the country illegally as children, giving Congress six months to write a law to resolve their plight.

President Trump’s repeal of an Obama-era program that shielded hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” from deportation faces a determined challenge in the courts from immigrant rights lawyers who call the change abrupt, unjustified and unconstitutional.

Karla Estrada expected the news that the federal program that has shielded her from deportation to Mexico for much of her life was in danger.

Within minutes of the Trump Administration’s announcement that it would end protections for nearly 800,000 young immigrants in the country without legal status, California campus leaders began a furious pushback.

On the campaign trail, as part of his cynical campaign to exploit fear of immigrants, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked an Obama administration policy that offered protection to people who had been living illegally in the United States since they were children.

President Trump’s decision to rescind a popular program that protected the most sympathetic of immigrants here illegally — those who were brought as children by their parents — poses a huge threat to his party, forcing Republican lawmakers to choose between the party’s nativist wing, which strongly opposes any move resembling amnesty, and those who favor a more flexible approach to minority communities.

Karla Estrada, a 26-year-old DACA participant, always knew the program was temporary.

Los Angeles politicians on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration’s decision to scrap protections for young men and women in the United States without legal status and urged Congress to pass legislation to aid so-called “Dreamers.”

Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, comes after months of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation.

President Donald Trump released a statement Tuesday morning explaining why he is phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which shields nearly 800,000 young people from deportation.

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President Trump’s decision to abandon existing protections for young men and women in the United States without legal status drew a sharp rebuke from the administration of Gov.

President Trump has tentatively decided to leave the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program intact for six months to give Congress time to find a legislative solution, aides said Monday, a delaying tactic likely to please neither side in the bitter debate over immigration.

After President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, a cousin approached Nanette Barragán and asked her if it was safe to apply.

To the editor: The Times Editorial Board asks about immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children, “By what calculation is it in the best interest of the country to eliminate their deferments and make them eligible for deportation?”

Worried about Republican efforts to eliminate a program that protects people who were brought into the country illegally at a young age, Itzel Guillen struggled to control her nerves as she recently sat in a car waiting to cross back into the U.S. from Mexico.

A San Diego federal judge wants to expedite the case of a young “Dreamer” who claims to have been wrongfully removed to Mexico despite his protected status, with a trial that could happen in as little as six weeks.

When Gordon Ip said goodbye to his parents this month and returned to the University of Nebraska Omaha for the fall semester, he knew it might be a very long time before he saw his mother and father again.

A flurry of rumors, conflicting reports and divergent statements on Friday highlighted deep divisions within the Trump administration over a major element of immigration policy — the fate of the roughly 750,000 so-called Dreamers who are shielded from deportation by an Obama-era policy.

President Trump discusses the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program during a news conference at the White House on Thursday.

It would be coldhearted indeed if President Trump were to end the Obama administration’s policy of not deporting immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.

Dozens of tech industry leaders have signed a letter expressing concern about reports that President Trump is considering ending a program that protected from deportation more than 750,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Homeland Security Secretary John F.