老澳门开奖结果

This fall, the Trump administration announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offers young undocumented people who came to this country as children temporary permission to work and live here. The decision threw the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants into crisis. The president has repeatedly that there鈥檚 鈥渘othing to worry about鈥� and that Dreamers can rest easy while Congress works on a legislative fix.

But that鈥檚 proven to be false.

By Christmas, about will have lost their DACA status since the administration began letting DACA permits expire on Sept. 5. On average, another are now losing DACA every day. If Congress doesn鈥檛 come up with a solution immediately, will start losing their status each day starting in March.

We鈥檙e also seeing the Trump administration target Dreamers who haven鈥檛 broken the program鈥檚 rules by revoking their DACA status even before their permits expire. Dreamers have lost their jobs, their driver鈥檚 licenses, and their ability to support themselves and their loved ones. They鈥檝e been locked up in immigration jails and threatened with deportation.

Tell Congress to pass the Dream Act now

Yesterday, the 老澳门开奖结果 was back to court in a nationwide class action to make sure Dreamers benefit from every remaining day of their DACA status, as the government promised. We represent Dreamers like Jos茅 Gil, a 24-year-old man from Coon Rapids, Minnesota, who鈥檚 lived in the United States since he was five years old. Jos茅 is an active member of his church, an altar server in high school, and a volunteer in helping to rebuild a church in New York destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

The federal government granted him DACA status twice, in 2015 and 2017. That allowed him to work as a bakery manager and for a logistics company, and he used his earnings to help support his five younger U.S. citizen siblings and to start saving for college. Jos茅 was also able to get a driver鈥檚 license, which allowed him to drive to work and church, and to give his siblings rides to school.

In September, Jos茅 was arrested by local police and later charged with a misdemeanor for driving on a cancelled license because he allegedly did not complete the required 鈥渟tatus check鈥� for his driver鈥檚 license after his DACA was renewed this year. Jos茅 was released from police custody the next day and returned to his job and family. But a month later, ICE showed up at his work, put him in an immigration jail, and filed a deportation case against him.

This resulted in the termination of his DACA 鈥� even though his charge for driving on an expired license does not disqualify him from the program. Jos茅 was locked up for month in an immigration jail before a judge granted him release on bond. But Jos茅 still doesn鈥檛 have his DACA back.

The 老澳门开奖结果 is aware of at least 16 other Dreamers like Jos茅 who have been stripped of their DACA status even though they continue to satisfy the program鈥檚 rules. In November, the federal court restored the DACA of another plaintiff in our case, Jes煤s Arreola, who was also terminated from the program even though he continued to meet its rules. We鈥檙e now asking the federal court to extend its ruling nationwide and prohibit the Trump administration from rescinding DACA for anyone who still qualifies for the program, without any notice, explanation, or an opportunity to respond. Everyone entitled to DACA should be allowed to keep it for whatever time they have left on their DACA grant.

But at the end of the day, the DACA program is ending, and it was never good enough for Dreamers like Jos茅 and Jes煤s. The hundreds of thousands of young people like them deserve a path to resolve their legal status once and for all. That鈥檚 why Congress must pass the bipartisan immediately. Only Congress can make sure that hardworking people like Jos茅 and Jes煤s 鈥� who are American in every way but on paper 鈥� become full members of the country they know and love as their home.

If you or someone you know have had DACA unfairly revoked, please contact the 老澳门开奖结果 at DACArevoked@aclu.org.