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Undated: "Dreamers", refers to those illegal
or undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors and
who would qualify for resident status under the proposed
DREAM Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamers
Undated: The DREAM Act (acronym
for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien
Minors Act) is an
American legislative proposal for a multi-phase process for qualifying alien
minors in the United States that would first grant conditional residency and,
upon meeting further qualifications,
permanent residency.
September 1: Speaker Paul Ryan “gave a major
boost to legislative efforts to preserve protections for young undocumented
immigrants — and urged President Trump to not tear up the program,”
CNN reports.
“The popular Obama administration program — which gives protections from
deportation to undocumented immigrants that were brought to the US as children
to work or study — has long been targeted by Republicans as an overreach of
executive authority. Nevertheless, a number of moderate Republicans alongside
Democrats support the program and have offered legislation that would make the
protections permanent.”
https://politicalwire.com/2017/09/01/ryan-scrapping-daca/
September 5: The
Trump administration on Tuesday formally announced the end of DACA -- a
program that had protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought
to the US as children from deportation.
But the administration also announced a plan to continue renewing permits for
anyone whose status expires in the next six months, giving Congress time to act
before any currently protected individuals lose their ability to work, study and
live without fear in the US.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/daca-trump-congress/index.html
September 5: Obama Calls Trump Move “Cruel” in Emotional Defense of DACA ... Polling shows the majority of
Trump voters agree.
“Ultimately, this is about basic decency,” he
wrote. “This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers
out of America, or whether we treat them the way we’d want our own kids to be
treated. It’s about who we are as a people—and who we want to be.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/barack-obama-daca-repeal-statement
September 4: What is Daca and who are
the Dreamers?
September 5: The Trump administration
Tuesday formally announced it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program — also called DACA — putting an expiration date on the legal
protections granted to roughly 800,000 people known as "DREAMers," who entered
the country illegally as children.
January 9:Judge blocks Trump
wind-down of Dreamers program ... Injunction
says feds must keep renewing permits for DACA recipients.
Unless halted by a higher court, the ruling will allow former DACA recipients
who failed to renew by an October 5 deadline a chance to submit renewal
applications and will also require the administration to allow renewal of
applications expiring in the future. The decision does not require officials to
accept new applications for DACA status.
January 11: Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff
Flake told reporters Thursday that his bipartisan group of negotiators have
reached a deal on a proposal that would shield hundreds of thousands of
recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program from
deportation in exchange for enhanced border security measures.
January 17: Congressional Democrats aren’t
backing down from their threats to reject any government funding bill that isn’t
paired with protection for thousands of young immigrants, as hard-line liberal
groups shrug off risks of a government shutdown.
The fight over the fate of the “dreamers” — some 700,000 people who were brought
to the U.S. as children and are now here illegally — is increasingly becoming a
test of Democrats’ progressive mettle, surpassing health care or taxes as the
top year-two priority for the liberal base.
http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/liberals-press-dems-to-act-on-immigration-shutdown-or-no
January 18: House Democrats are holding firm
in opposition to a short-term spending bill, even as Republicans in both
chambers struggle to round up enough votes to keep the government open beyond
Friday.
January 23: Trump Open to Giving Dreamers
Pathway to Citizenship, for the Moment
By providing President Trump with constant warnings and some
pointless busy work, White House staffers were able to keep him from
derailing the Republicans’ negotiation tactics during the three-day government
shutdown. But Trump still seemed eager to show off the skills his ghostwriter
concocted for The Art of the Deal, and sure enough, on Wednesday he
jumped back into immigration talks.
January 29: Bipartisan House group unveils
new DACA proposal
A
bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House are unveiling Monday their proposal
to resolve the immigration standoff in Washington, even as the White House has
offered a more conservative plan.
https://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=80614
February 6: Chief of staff Kelly suggests
Dreamers who didn't sign up for DACA were 'too afraid' or 'too lazy'
"There are 690,000 official DACA registrants and the President sent over what
amounts to be two and a half times that number, to 1.8 million," he said on
Capitol Hill after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
according to audio posted by The Washington Post.
February 7: Senate leaders strike budget
deal ahead of government shutdown deadline
The measure, negotiated between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, increases domestic spending by $63
billion and military spending by $80 billion for 2018 with larger increases in
2019. The spending levels completely eliminate the mandatory spending caps,
otherwise known as sequestration, that have been imposed on both military and
domestic spending since 2011.
“The budget caps agreement includes many Democratic priorities,” Pelosi said in
a statement. “This morning, we took a measure of our Caucus because the package
does nothing to advance bipartisan legislation to protect Dreamers [DACA] in the
House.
February 7: Nancy Pelosi sets House record
with EIGHT-HOUR marathon DACA speech, surpassing 1919 monologue
Pelosi delivered the monologue in defense of 'DREAMers' brought here illegally
when they were children, whose protections are set to expire next month. She
spoke on a day Senate leaders reached a bipartisan budget deal to raise spending
caps in a two-year budget but without dealing with the DREAMer issue.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5365067/Pelosi-sets-record-8-hour-marathon-DACA-speech.html
February 8: President Donald Trump’s budget
proposal to be unveiled on Monday will include a request for $3 billion as a
down payment on building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, a senior
administration official said on Thursday.
Wall funding has been caught up in a debate over how to protect young
“Dreamers,” people who were brought to the country illegally as children.
February 9: Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell is set to
fulfill his promise to open debate on an immigration bill next week, but
crafting a plan that can pass both chambers of Congress and appease President
Donald Trump is no easy task.
February 12: Second U.S. judge blocks Trump
administration from ending DACA program
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn ruled that the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, cannot end in March as the Republican
administration had planned, a victory for Democratic state attorneys general and
immigrants who sued the federal government.
February 14: Senior White House officials on
Wednesday warned lawmakers against turning to a possible fallback measure that
would temporarily make legal a program that protects nearly 700,000 undocumented
immigrants from deportation.
It appears a longshot that the House and Senate will both pass immigration
overhaul bills that address the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals, or DACA, program and reconcile differences ahead of a March 5 deadline
for its termination. One option should Congress fail to act by that date would
be a measure legalizing DACA temporarily as members keep trying to strike a
broader deal.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/short-daca-fix-insufficient-trump-white-house-warns
February 15: Trump administration
eviscerates bipartisan immigration plan as Senate shows little progress
The Trump administration offered venomous criticism of a bipartisan immigration
plan Thursday, as senators struggled to reach a consensus on a bill to protect
young immigrants from deportation and boost border security.
February 15: President Trump rejects
bipartisan immigration efforts, compounding Senate bills on DACA
... the president’s demand that Republicans heed his criteria for any
legislation he would sign, including dramatic cuts in legal immigration, created
new doubts about whether the Senate could reach consensus.
February 15: Republican Senators Slam Trump
Admin For Killing DACA Compromise
“I don’t think the President helped very much,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a
cosponsor of the bipartisan plan, told reporters following the vote. “There’s
probably 75 votes here for border security plus a pathway to citizenship for the
DACA recipients, but you need presidential leadership. Without it, we won’t get
there.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/republican-senators-slam-trump-admin-for-killing-daca-compromise
February 16: Will Trump strike a deal on the
Dream Act?
It’s been 17 years since Sens. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Richard J. Durbin
(D-Ill.) introduced the Dream Act, proposed legislation that would provide legal
protections to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as
children.
Since then, the Dream Act has had countless ups and downs. Presidents George W.
Bush and Barack Obama tried, and failed, to shepherd a bill through Congress
that would give legal status to so-called dreamers.
February 23: Trump: Democrats 'have totally
abandoned' DACA
"Senate Democrats and the House Democrats have totally abandoned DACA. They
don’t even talk to me about it, they’ve totally abandoned it," Trump
said Friday during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
"We want to do something about DACA, get it solved after all these years. The
Democrats have been totally unresponsive. They don't want to do anything about
DACA. It’s very possible DACA won’t happen, it’s not because of Republicans,
it’s because of Democrats.”
http://thehill.com/latino/375279-trump-democrats-have-totally-abandoned-daca
February 16: Trump, Who Singlehandedly Ended
DACA, Says Democrats Have Abandoned Dreamers ... In a tweet, he claims
Republicans are “still working hard” for a deal.
Trump’s attempt to cast blame on Democrats comes amid the Senate’s failure this
week to pass four different pieces of immigration legislation, including a
highly contested, hardline immigration bill embraced by Trump that received
only 39 votes and had no chance of passing. Despite having once proclaimed that
he would sign any immigration bill that landed on his desk, Trump came out
against a bill negotiated by a bipartisan group of lawmakers that many viewed as
the Senate’s best shot to shield Dreamers from deportation.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trump-who-singlehandedly-ended-daca-says-democrats-have-abandoned-dreamers/
February 26: The Supreme Court said on
Monday that it will stay out of the dispute concerning the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program for now, meaning participants will still be able to
renew their status.
March 23: A visibly upset Donald Trump said
Friday he would support a $1.3 trillion bill to fund the US government, hours
after tweeting that
he might veto it.
“There are a lot of things I’m unhappy about,” Trump told journalists in the
White House’s Diplomatic Reception room at 1:30pm, for a press conference that
he had announced
on Twitter an hour before. “I will never sign another bill like this again,”
he said.
April 4: How Trump’s
attempt to kill DACA could help ICE deport thousands of Dreamers
... though Trump’s efforts to kill DACA have so far been blocked in
federal courts, he made it clear with a recent flurry of tweets that he no
longer has any intention of striking a deal to save the program.
With the future of DACA in jeopardy, immigration advocates and lawyers are again
worried that instead of giving its recipients a modicum of protection from
deportation and the ability to work legally in the United States, DACA may soon
be weaponized against them, with ICE using the sensitive information they
provided to track down, detain and deport anyone who ever applied to the program
and their family members.
April 21: DACA students fear tuition ruling
will force them to drop out of college
Earlier this month, Arizona's Supreme Court ruled that students who have gained
legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
can no longer receive breaks on tuition from the state's colleges and
universities. This means costs could almost triple for thousands of DACA status
students in Arizona.
Currently, the in-state
tuition rate for undergraduates at the school is $10,792. Out-of-state
students pay more than double that at $27,372.
May 17: Nearly 20 House Republicans
have signed a petition to try to force an immigration vote that Republican
leaders have so far refused to have.
“Obviously we don't like the discharge petition,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.)
said at an event Thursday. “It would guarantee [whatever we vote on] would not
go into law.”
June 7: Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks
after being sent back to Mexico’s violence
Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated from high school in Des Moines
last month. The oldest of four siblings should have walked across a stage in a
cap and gown to become a proud symbol to his sister and brothers of the rewards
of hard work and education.
Instead, Manuel died a brutal death alone in a foreign land, a symbol of gang
supremacy in a country plagued by violent drug cartels. It happened three weeks
after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned him to Mexico, a country
he had left at age 3 when his parents brought him here without a visa.
November 24: DACA recipient makes history
after being named Rhodes Scholar
A DACA recipient who is a Harvard senior has been awarded a coveted Rhodes
scholarship.
Jin Kyu Park, 22, is originally from South Korea. His parents brought him to the
U.S. when he was 7.
“I’m thankful that the Rhodes have expanded their eligibility to include DACA
recipients,” Park was quoted as saying in a Harvard University
news release. “But it’s important to note that I am just one of 11 million.
And this really reflects the fact that if you give DACA recipients a chance, we
can really contribute to this country and do amazing things. Every DACA
recipient is capable of great things.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/daca-recipient-makes-history-after-being-named-rhodes-scholar
December 15: Paul Ryan Pushing Through
Thousands Of Irish Visas Before Leaving Office
