Who Does the DREAM Act Really Help? [PSMag.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/20/174:00 AM

Contradicting months of then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign promises, the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday published a press release announcing it would not immediately seek to deport undocumented immigrants who have remained in the United States under the protections of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.

The release, according to a report from the New York Times, was intended to clarify that, while homeland security officials have revoked the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program—an Obama-era measure that allowed the undocumented parents of American citizens to apply for deferred deportation—it would not immediately do the same to the DREAM Act.

[For more of this story, written by Morgan Baskin, go to https://psmag.com/social-justice/goodbye-dapa]

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