By: Joseph Hayes and Laura Hill ~ Public Policy Institute of California ~ June 19, 2020 On June 16, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration cannot immediately end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Obama put in place in 2012. This ruling means ...

By: Katherine Mangan ~ The Chronicle of Higher Education ~ June 18, 2020 As the clock was ticking toward the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Thursday to block the Trump administration from immediately ending a program that has been a lifeline for undocumented students like herself, Erika Landa was ...

By: Carole Levine ~ NPQ ~ June 19, 2020 In November of 2019, NPQ painted this picture of young DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) participants outside the Supreme Court building after their hearing: The plaintiffs held hands triumphantly on the steps of the US Supreme Court after their hearing ...

By: Josh Gerstein and Rebecca Rainey ~ Politico ~ June 18, 2020 Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s Democratic appointees in a 5-4 decision. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to end the DACA program, handing a major victory to about 650,000 immigrants — most ...

By: Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear ~ The New York Times ~ June 18, 2020 The program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, protects people brought to the United States as children by shielding them from deportation and letting them work. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration ...

By: Kery Murakami ~ Inside Higher Ed ~ June 15, 2020 A federal judge in Washington State has blocked the Education Department's rule limiting which college students are eligible for emergency grants but left in place a ban on undocumented students getting the aid. A mixed ruling by a federal ...

By: Wesley Whistle ~ Forbes ~ June 17, 2020 Another judge has blocked Education Secretary from enforcing her CARES Act guidance. Today, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granted an injunction, blocking the Department of Education from enforcing their CARES Act guidance against California community colleges. The CARES Act ...

By: Jens Manuel Krogstad ~ Pew Research Center ~ June 17, 2020 About three-quarters of U.S. adults say they favor granting permanent legal status to immigrants who came illegally to the United States when they were children, with the strongest support coming from Democrats and Hispanics, according to a Pew ...

By: NINA AGRAWAL, Staff writer, Los Angeles Times – May 13, 20206:15 PM The nation’s largest community college system is suing the federal government for denying coronavirus relief funds to more than a half-million California students, including DACA recipients and many of those from low-income families. California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy ...

Trump promised that information from DACA applications would not be sent to deportation agents. But internal emails show that ICE can access databases where that information is kept — and DHS decided not to tell Congress. by Dara Lind, Propublica – April 21, 11:15 a.m. EDT When undocumented immigrants who arrived ...