Are you confused about the current situation with DACA?
What's happening?
What you can do?
Who Qualifies?
Stay tuned.
We'll talk about in this video.
Hello everybody.
My name is Jacob Sapochnick and I'm an Immigration Attorney based in San Diego, California.
And in this video, I want to talk about the current situation with the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.
What's going on?
People are confused about it.
Is it still in effect?
Can we file?
Can we renew?
Well, let's talk a little bit about what's going on.
So, I'm not going to talk about what DACA is.
We've done a few videos about DACA and I'll post that information in the description of
this video.
But this program started in 2012 by an executive order issued by President Obama essentially
allowing children live abroad into the United States illegally by their parents who are
also undocumented in winter school and are not criminals and fulfill a few other requirements
to be able to get a two year permit to work in.
Stay in the U.S.
When President Trump got elected, he specifically said that he is God is going to end DACA,
and in late 2017, he in fact issued an order that this program is going to sunset on March
5th, 2018.
What happened after March 5th, 2018 people are starting to lose their status under the
DACA program and as a result, multiple lawsuits were filed and this records throughout the
country started ruling on this issue.
One of the most important rulings came by a court in San Francisco in January of 2018.
And they said that President Trump's decision to end DACA is based on flawed legal premise.
And as a result of that decision, they said that people can continue to renew DACA but
not filed new applications.
So it's very important to understand that as a result of that decision, people that
already had DACA kept…could continue to renew it, but no new applications of DACA,
we're allowed under this decision.
As a result, the administration obviously went against this and they're trying to find
ways to reverse it.
Recently, a court in Texas with this, a few other states joined together to file a suit
against the Trump administration saying that they want DACA completely to be terminated.
So we see that there's a lot of activity going on in the court so we don't know if the Supreme
Court is going to hear or make a ruling on this.
But as of now, what we know is that people that had DACA can continue to renew until
further notice.
People that never had DACA are not able to file.
And we know that it's important to understand that what some of this district court said
is that Trump decision to, end DACA is really based on flawed legal premise.
And now, the administration has several months to come up with a reasonable, logic, with
some sort of reasoning as to why they should end DACA.
And maybe the Supreme Court will listen and enroll in this.
But as of now, people can continue to renew their DACAs.
So we'll continue to update our videos on this.
But we just wanted to give it a little bit of an update because there's a lot of confusion
as to what's happening with DACA and that's what the situation is about today.
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