DACA

While Faiz's verses fuelled Shaheen Bagh protests and solidarity marches for Kanhaiya Kumar, 'Give me some sunshine' from 3 Idiots was used effectively by anti-DACA agitators on the US-Mexico border

The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled a regulation aimed at fending off legal challenges to a decade-old program that shields immigrants from deportation if they arrived as young children. The rule isn't scheduled to take effect until Oct. 31 and its fate is tied to a lawsuit by Texas and other Republican-led states. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been closed to new registrants since July 2021 while the case winds its way through the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Its 453 pages are largely technical and represent little substantive change from the 2012 memo that created DACA, but it was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process intended to improve its chances of surviving legal muster. President Joe Biden said he would do everything within my power" to protect DACA recipients while renewing a call for legislation to provide them a pathway to citizenship. Dreamers are part of the fabric of this nation, said Biden, using a

Google said that it would donate $250,000 grants as application fees of about 500 young immigrants seeking employment under the US government program- the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Over 170 new applicants have become the first individuals in several years to win approval to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme for immigrants

Reversing the outgoing Trump administration's decision, a federal court ordered full reinstatement of the Obama-era programme to protect undocumented immigrants brought as minors from deportation

A recent poll found that 52 percent of Latino voters in key battleground states said the selection of Ms. Harris as his running mate would make them more likely to vote for Mr. Biden

Announcement is a relief to international students, including those from India, and it comes after leading US universities sued the government.

Responding to a question, Trump said his action on the DACA is going to be part of a much bigger bill on immigration

Around 800,000 undocumented workers will be affected by Trump's Obama-era amnesty programme

Trump scraps scheme protecting immigrants

India ranks 11th among countries of origin for DACA students

Since the program's inception, nearly 800,000 have signed up

DACA recipients are not threats to public safety or national security

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday announced the rescinding of the DACA

US President Donald Trump yesterday scrapped an Obama-era programme

On Sunday night, the White House issued a "framework" for an immigration deal that would protect so-called "Dreamers," undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children

Court challenges to the phase-out of the program have now risen to the top court, whose justices will take stock of the issue during oral arguments

Trump is set to scrap a programme that grants work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children