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As courts battle legality of DACA, new applicants cling to hope csmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from csmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
July 24, 2021 Share When the text message popped up on his phone, Samuel Alfaro didn’t want to believe it. It said his appointment with U.S. immigration services about his application to join the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the one he had been waiting on for months, was canceled because of a court order halting the Obama-era deportation protections for those brought to the U.S. as children. “I thought it was a scam,” the 19-year-old from Houston said of the message he received Sunday night, hours before his appointment. Alfaro went to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website and “kept checking it, refreshing it every few hours.” Later, he got an email, confirming it was true. ....
Ruling leaves immigrants who newly applied for DACA in limbo ksl.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksl.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Skanner News - Ruling Halts DACA Program Leaving Tens of Thousands in Limbo theskanner.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theskanner.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Now, he simply feels “a little sad. Alfaro isn t the only one. Tens of thousands of young immigrants in the country without legal status are in the same position following a July 16 ruling from a federal judge in Texas that declared DACA illegal while leaving the program intact for existing recipients. The ruling bars the government from approving any new applications, like that of Alfaro, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 2, along with his older brother. Immigrants and advocates have said they will appeal. In a statement, Citizenship and Immigration Services said it “will comply with the court order, continue to implement the components of DACA that remain in place. ....