DACA Archives

University leaders urge Senate to act quickly on newly introduced DREAM Act

Feb 9, 2021

An alliance of presidents of U.S. colleges and universities, including Catholic institutions, said the bipartisan DREAM Act of 2021 “represents the first step to restore certainty into the lives of young adults, students, and other aspiring Americans who want nothing more than to be an integral part of the fabric of this country.”

By Catholic News Service

Bishops’ migration chairman welcomes ruling fully restoring DACA

Dec 8, 2020

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee Dec. 8 welcomed the court ruling fully restoring the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, but said only Congress can “take up and pass legislation granting Dreamers a path to citizenship.”

By Carol Zimmermann

Federal judge orders full restoration of DACA program

Dec 6, 2020

A federal judge Dec. 4 said the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, after the program that protects qualifying young adult immigrants from deportation was suspended this summer by Chad Wolf, acting Homeland Security secretary.

By Carol Zimmermann

Federal judge: Rules restricting DACA program were invalid

Nov 17, 2020

A federal judge ruled Nov. 14 that the suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, announced this past summer by the Department of Homeland Security, was invalid because the agency’s top official, Chad Wolf, did not legally hold his position when he issued the order.

By Carol Zimmermann

Faith leaders criticize Trump’s plan to reject new DACA applicants

Jul 29, 2020

Faith leaders and immigrant advocates have denounced the Trump administration’s plan to reject first-time applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, and limit DACA renewals to one-year extensions instead of two.

By Carol Zimmermann

Since high court’s ruling, administration has taken slow action on DACA

Jul 17, 2020

Since the Supreme Court ruled in June that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, could stay in place, not much has happened.

By Carol Zimmermann

Capital punishment, immigration issues compel Iowa bishops to speak up

Jul 8, 2020

Iowa’s Catholic bishops are taking a prominent stand on three pressing federal issues, one involving the imminent execution of four federal death-row inmates, another on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and the third on the asylum system.

By Barb Arland-Fye

Trump expected to refile paperwork soon in his effort to end DACA

Jul 8, 2020

President Donald Trump is expected to refile paperwork during the second week of July to end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, following the Supreme Court ruling that his administration went about trying to end the program the wrong way.

By Carol Zimmermann