The highest US judicial body must decide on the program that protects immigrants arrived during childhood.
Dreamers are young people who came to the United States as children and have received protection to study and work in the country.
The fate of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children were in the balance on Tuesday, November 12, the day when the Supreme Court will hear arguments about the Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from the Obama era.
The president of United States; Donald Trump, asked in 2017 to cancel the DACA; however, the minor courts have prevented it because they have allowed the program benefits to continue being renewed while the appeals process is underway. In limbo are the so-called dreamers, who depend on the program that was created by decree in the presidency of Barack Obama because Congress failed to implement immigration reforms to allow these people to work legally in the United States and be protected from deportation.
Trump’s campaign to end the program is, in some ways, the axis of his strict immigration policies and most likely the highest court will fail in June, at the height of the 2020 presidential campaign, which will insert the court even more on an issue that motivates the bases of both parties.
The decision is expected to affect around 700,000 undocumented immigrants, many from Mexico and Central America. Legislators from both parties have generally supported the beneficiaries of the program, who arrived in the United States illegally and who have remained in limbo.
DACA recipients: 699,350
DACA recipients with arrest records: 53,792 (says Trump)DACA arrest rate: 7.7%
Adult US citizens per the FBI (2017): 249.4M
Adult US citizens with a felony arrest record (2017): 73.5MAdult US citizen felony arrest rate: 29.5%
Take that for data. https://t.co/sPYBA0NsyL
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) November 13, 2019
Immigrant advocates and DACA beneficiaries from across the country gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court, Tuesday morning.
In the dreary cold, people covered themselves with ponchos and lined up to be able to briefly see the arguments when the procedure begins at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
Antonio, one of the complainants, was the first in line to enter the Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear the arguments. The dreamer told CNN that he had been there since dawn and that some people had taken turns saving his place since the weekend. “They will decide my destiny,” he said of the ministers who will hear the arguments.
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