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People who received benefits from DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, began signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, at the start of ...
More than 100,000 young immigrants protected by DACA will soon become eligible to receive federal healthcare coverage for the first time since the program was implemented over a decade ago.
A federal judge in Texas again ruled the DACA program for young immigrants raised in the U.S. is illegal but the program hasn't ended. Here are 4 things to know.
The study only found "suggestive evidence that DACA pushed over 25,000 DACA-eligible individuals into obtaining their GED certificate in order to be eligible for DACA." [ 17 ] However, research by Roberto G. Gonzales, professor of education at Harvard University, showed that DACA led to increased educational attainment. [ 82 ]
The DACA program is 12 years old on Saturday, but over a decade of Republican lawsuits to end the Obama-era program, which has halted new applications, has shut down the program to a generation of ...
Members of this second group would be eligible by expansion of the existing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which previously covered 1.2 million people, the expansion bringing the new coverage total to 1.5 million. [61] The new deferrals would be granted for three years at a time.
The program was announced on November 20, 2014 by President Barack Obama, along with a number of immigration reform steps including increased resources for border enforcement, new procedures for high-skilled immigrants, and an expansion of the existing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. [2] [3]
The program could benefit up to a half million DACA holders and the process starts in late August. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is a legal director for the American Immigration Council.