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DHS fully restores the DACA program in response to the court's order
On December 4, 2020, Judge Garaufis required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take certain actions to implement his November 14 opinion. As a result, effective December 7, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is:
- Accepting first-time requests for consideration of deferred action under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) based on the terms of the DACA policy in effect prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the Court’s December 4, 2020, order;
- Accepting DACA renewal requests based on the terms of the DACA policy in effect prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the Court’s December 4, 2020, order;
- Accepting applications for advance parole documents based on the terms of the DACA policy prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the Court’s December 4, 2020, order;
- Extending one-year grants of deferred action under DACA to two years; and
- Extending one-year employment authorization documents under DACA to two years.
USCIS will take appropriate steps to provide evidence of the one-year extensions of deferred action and employment authorization documents under DACA to individuals who were issued documentation on or after July 28, 2020, with a one-year validity period under the Wolf Memorandum.
DHS will comply with Judge Garaufis’ order while it remains in effect, but DHS may seek relief from the order.
For more information, please visit USCIS.gov.
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Judge orders Trump Administration to fully restore DACA Program
By Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear, New York Times – Dec. 4, 2020
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to fully restore an Obama-era program designed to shield young, undocumented immigrants from deportation, dealing what could be a final blow to President Trump’s long-fought effort to end the protections.
The program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was created by President Barack Obama in 2012. Over the years, it has protected more than 800,000 individuals, known as “dreamers,” who met a series of strict requirements for eligibility.
But those protections have been under legal and political siege from Republicans for years, leaving the immigrants who were enrolled in DACA uncertain whether the threat of deportation from the United States could quickly return with a single court order or presidential memorandum... Read Full Article
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SI SE PUDO !!! BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES!
As the leading organization dedicated to the full restoration of DACA's Advance Parole for the past 3 years, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) embraces this announcement with excitement and determination to continue to provide educational opportunities and humanitarian assistance to Dreamers who need to seek Advance Parole to travel abroad.
Please donate to our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program fundraising efforts!
Your support matters, and makes a difference!
The CMSC launched a new fund drive initiative until December 31, 2020 to solicit sponsors and grants in support of the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, which will allow 83 DACA recipients to travel to Mexico with DACA’s Advance Parole permit, immerse in a unique U.S.-Mexico national security study abroad program, and reconnect with their family and cultural roots.
But we need to raise about $50,000 to cover the increased costs of the program and ensure the safety of all participants while traveling in Mexico during the pandemic. The additional costs are related to increased expenses due to doubling the cost for single-room hotel accommodations and all transportation costs due to social-distancing, COVID-19 pre- and post-testing, and 24/7 medical attention and prevention protocols.
Thus, we urge our community, Dreamers’ supporters, corporate and business sponsors, community and church groups, and academic colleagues to help us raise $50,000 by the end of the year with donations of any amount, or by sponsoring at least one Dreamer participant at $500 each.
MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY!
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Grant asylum to families torn by Trump
BY: EMILY COHODES, SAHANA KRIBAKARAN AND DYLAN GEE,
LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 8, 2020
More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration since 2017. Many families remain separated, and the violence of this policy has been compounded by the government’s failure to keep track of the families it tore apart as it sent children to shelters all over the country and then deported their parents.
The parents of 628 children still have not been found. Just recently, it was revealed that the Trump administration withheld critical contact information for the parents, which could have been used to help locate them.
Even as the country prepares to transition to a new administration that has promised to end family separation practices and to reunify children with their parents, the details remain uncertain at best. President-elect Joe Biden has not yet committed to allowing the reunions — once the parents are found — to occur within the U.S. or, critically, to grant the reunited families asylum... Read Full Article
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DHS issues nine-month extension of TPS benefits for Central Americans
By: JACQUELINE CHARLES, MIAMI HERALD – DECEMBER 07, 2020
Temporary Protected Status benefits, which were set to expire early next month for an estimated 400,000 immigrants from Haiti, Nepal and Central America, will be extended by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nine months.
The extension means that the TPS beneficiaries, including nationals of Sudan as well as Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, can continue to legally live and work in the United States for the next nine months and — for now — avoid being placed in deportation proceedings, which could have begun as early as March after their documents expired on Jan. 4, 2021.
“I am excited, elated,” said Marleine Bastien, the founder and executive director of Miami-based Family Action Network Movement, or FANM. Bastien’s organization is among several that sued the Trump administration after it canceled the program... Read Full Article
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Xavier Becerra goes from fighting against to leading the U.S. Health department
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 7, 2020
California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra has been one of the most visible defenders of the Affordable Care Act in recent years, repeatedly filing lawsuits against Republican efforts to dismantle it. That’s one reason President-elect Joe Biden tapped him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency that administers the ACA for the federal government.
But HHS, which has the largest budget of any federal agency, does a lot more than just operate the ACA’s insurance-buying marketplaces in dozens of states. Among many other things, the department runs Medicare and Medicaid, oversees federally funded medical research through the National Institutes of Health, regulates pharmaceuticals through the Food and Drug Administration, fights infectious diseases through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and oversees federal mental health, substance abuse and child development programs.... Read Full Article
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ADVANCE PAROLE VOICES:
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Please watch the following videos from our Advance Parole Voices series, featuring current participants of our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
Please share these videos and donate to our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program Fund Drive Initiative.
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CSULB-CMSC Dreamers: Aquí y Allá
Take a moment to remember CSULB-CMSC's play: "Dreamers: Aquí y Allá", which features human stories from our Summer 2017 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program participants, two weeks before DACA was canceled in Sep. 5, 2017
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LATEST NEWS
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What happens next for DACA’s Dreamers (New York Times)
Despite being a college graduate, Maria Fernanda Madrigal Delgado had no choice in 2011 but to clean buildings and flip burgers in fast-food joints for cash because she was not eligible to work in the United States. She had grown up undocumented in Southern California after being brought to the country as a child from Costa Rica... Read More
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Surge of COVID amplifies disparity in Latino communities (Los Angeles Times)
With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations reaching unprecedented levels in California, the pandemic is once again stalking low-income, working-class, majority Latino neighborhoods with particular aggressiveness, according to a Times data analysis... Read More
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Of all the promises Donald Trump made during the 2016 campaign, his pledge to crack down on immigration is the one he has come closest to keeping. Since the beginning, the Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to immigration... Read More
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A Trump no lo indultará la historia (Latino California)
Sin aceptar del todo que ha perdido, y sobre todo actuando con piel y discurso de la víctima que no es, este presidente que no quiere despertar de su letargo autocrático ya ha recibido de la realidad electoral una bofetada tras otra, aun antes del 3 de noviembre, sobre todo cuando las encuestas serias nunca lo favorecieron... Leer más
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