Tag: children of immigrants

800,000 immigrants face uncertainty: What happens to ‘Dreamers’ after Trump revokes their residence rights?

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered the end of the “Dreamers” program that allowed illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country. That move threatens the futures of some 800,000 people, many now in schools, with jobs and families in the United States. What is the ‘Dreamers’ program?  In a presidential order in June 2012, president Barack Obama launched DACA  — Deferred Action […]