hi everyone we received some very very
disappointing news today out of the
white house with respect to DACA which
President Trump has decided to eliminate
now we saw this coming this is not
surprising nevertheless it is quite
disappointing particularly for the
800,000 people who are impacted by it
and of course us practitioners who
believe in the program and saw how the
program has impacted young lives for
those of you who don't know what daca is
daca stands for deferred action for
childhood arrivals and so under
President Obama
this program was initiated to stop or
temporarily suspend I should say or
defer the deportation of people who came
in illegally with their parents people
who were under the age of 16 primarily
of course it then it also applies to
those who were under the age of 31 by a
certain date in 2007 so it you know the
criteria extended beyond those who were
children it nevertheless this is a
highly popular highly popular program
that a lot of people are very concerned
about the implications of it going away
so my purpose today is just to speak
very briefly about what this means for
those 800,000 people to go through some
frequently asked questions that the
government published today and talk
about next steps so I thought it was
interesting that the Attorney General in
his speech this morning about daca he
had this to say about it he said we
cannot admit everyone who would like to
come here it's just that simple
oh is it is it really that simple he
also says said that daca denied jobs to
hundreds of thousands of Americans by
allowing those same illegal aliens to
take those jobs I think we're going to
need to fact check that one the
government's position is
that DACA from day one was overly broad
meaning that the program was initially
created to address childhood arrivals
those who were under the age of 16 at
the time that they came to this country
by mid 2007 but it also expanded to
include people who were under the age of
31 and then some other criteria some
other things were thrown into it as well
and so the government has has also said
that Congress previously rejected a
similar proposal and times passed and so
the government under this administration
thinks that DACA is just not good policy
that's really what it comes down to the
philosophy of this government is that
DACA is not good policy and so
therefore it got rid of it so people who
are DACA recipients are susceptible to
deportation bottom line they want daca
goes away so it's going away these
people are now on a particular timeline
meaning that when they're daca status
expires and their work authorization
expires they are now looking at an
unlawful status for an undocumented
status and so therefore these people are
at risk for being deported being placed
in immigration court and allowing those
proceedings to take course so as early
as March of next year 2018 some people
will face deportation proceedings now
today on USCIS website they have a
one-page announcement about this and
then they cited to the Department of
Homeland Security's news section here
with a frequently asked questions page
and I'm going to go through just a
couple of those questions but the main
things that you need to understand about
this change in policy is that people who
apply for the first time or what we call
initial
Qwest initial request for daca and DAPA
benefits those penny applications for
any initial applications that are
submitted after today September 5th 2017
will be rejected by the government today
is the last day to submit initial
requests for daca benefits also the
government has given people until
October 5th 2017 essentially in another
month to submit their renewal
applications now one thing you should
know about daca is that the benefits are
given the work permit is issued on a two
year in a two year period and so and
previously it was a renewable two year
period and so the government is not
obviously going to continue the program
but they're given people who are
currently receiving daca until October
5th by which to submit their renewal and
applications and then there's it gets
really deeper than that so if you're a
daca recipient I would advise you to
take a look at the frequently asked
questions that DHS put out today because
this answers a lot more questions than
what I'm able to present in this video
okay what I found interesting about
question number two on DHS s website is
this the question is what is going to
happen to current daca holders the
answer current daca recipients will be
permitted to retain or hold on to both
the period of deferred action and their
employment authorization documents until
they expire unless terminated or revoked
okay so basically the government
reserves the right of course to
terminate and revoke your employment
authorization document and your your
status as a daca recipient and so I
thought that was an interesting thing
that they threw in there now let's see
the other question that I thought was
interesting interesting is will
individuals with expired daca be
considered illegally present in the
country the answer is of course the
answer is of course but of course the
has a non-pro government by the way
pro-government I used to work for the
government on pro-government but the
language in this write-up is really it's
really colorful but the answer the short
answer is yes you will you're going to
be considered illegally present in the
United States once data your doctor
expires then there are some other
questions about whether USCIS is going
to share information with ice isis
enforcement division about daca
recipients take a look at this take a
look at the government answer just so
you know the government always has a
right there's they're sharing
information that's the bottom line
information is being shared now here in
new york our governor and the Attorney
General came out today in a very
aggressive way and said that they're
going to sue this administration for
this cruel action of getting rid of daca
and we've got to be realistic here about
how effective such a lawsuit is actually
going to be although I condemned what
happened today and a lot of other people
including the American Immigration
Lawyers Association of which I'm a
member
condemned this action we know that this
is an executive action executive policy
that President Obama put into place and
so the next administration has the right
to get rid of a policy that was created
by a previous administration unless of
course Congress acts and so that's the
position that the president's
administration is taken they're now put
in the ball back in Congress's court and
saying Congress if you love this so much
you go ahead and you create a lot to do
this but as it relates to this
administration we're not interested in
deferring the deportation of people who
came to this country when they were just
children without with no fault no fault
of their own right so Congress is now
looking at bipartisan meaning both
Republican and Democrats coming together
in agreement they're now looking at a
bipartisan proposal to address daca so
we'll see we have six months
Congress has six months to act before
quite a number of people face will be
susceptible to deportation next March so
we'll watch we'll keep an eye on this
and again very disappointing news but
not surprising if you're a daca
recipient I encourage you to seek legal
counsel whether it's paid counsel or
whether it's through some free resource
a lot of those free resources are
available if you cannot afford to pay an
attorney for advice but I would say in
this video that you should definitely
talk with an attorney to find out
whether there are any other pathways or
any other ways that you can maybe change
your status and become a green card
holder okay so would that be and said
thanks for very much for sticking with
me on this long video I thought it was
very important to provide you with the
details of what happened today because
it's huge it's huge huge in the life of
a lot of people and so we're watching as
usual thank you for watching and please
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