This excellent article was written by Dara Lind, Explainerd for @voxdotcom, covering immigration & criminal justice. She is really worth following on Twitter at @DLind.
To understand Obama’s next big immigration action, you need to understand his first
Obama’s rumored action will be unprecedented in its scale, but not in its form. It’s likely that the administration will be building on an existing program that gives relief to young unauthorized immigrants — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. (In fact, estimates that the president will end up protecting 5 million immigrants from deportation include the existing DACA program in the total.)
DACA has been around since 2012, but it’s more controversial now than ever — in part because of the attention getting paid to President Obama’s anticipated new proposal. Here are the basics of how the existing DACA program works — which might help explain how Obama’s new executive actions are going to work.
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action, you need to understand his first – Vox.
Be sure to click through to To understand Obama’s next big immigration action, you need to understand his first at Vox to learn everything you need to know about the history of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and how it works.
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