DHS is urging DACA recipients to self-deport (www.npr.org)

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The Trump administration is shifting its tone on how it handles immigrants brought to the U.S. as children under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Also known as DACA, the program was created in 2012 to protect children who arrived in the country illegally prior to 2007 from deportation.

In recent months, the administration has tried to strip 525,000 DACA recipients, also known as Dreamers, of benefits, although no regulatory changes have been made to end the program.

For example, the Health and Human Services Department said it would make DACA recipients ineligible for the federal healthcare marketplace in June. Then last week, the Education Department said it was looking into five universities that offer financial help for DACA recipients. Also, immigration enforcement officers have arrested and detained DACA recipients throughout the country, which immigrant advocates said weakens protections of this group.

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[-] celeste@kbin.earth 32 points 4 days ago

You try to do everything right, but in this administration, that just means there's a record of you they can use to make you suffer.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

People warned the Obama administration the records they forced people to submit to participate in DACA made them vulnerable to law enforcement abuse when they were coming up with the program

[-] Epzillon@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

"Self-deport" is crazy. How did we even end up in a timeline where this is a word.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Because "asks them to leave" wouldn't be as juicy to their fascist, racist audience as "asks them to self-deport". The latter unduly connotes guilt in a way the former doesn't and makes the regime seem more powerful.

[-] xyzzy@lemmy.today 14 points 4 days ago

I knew a guy in New York who was DACA. Dude grew up in Boston and had a Boston accent. He rooted for the Patriots. He's only ever lived in the Northeast. It's been several years, but by now he's probably married a US citizen he was seriously dating. But Trump and the rest can only see an Other.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

They see it as a convenient way to divide the working class.

[-] prole 13 points 4 days ago

Racist pieces of shit

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

This shows it has nothing to do with the legality of immigrants. It has everything to do with skin color.

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