Every day about 120 young undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers" lose their temporary protection from deportation. The reason is simple: when President Trump announced on 5 September that he would end the "DACA" , His administration gave the beneficiaries of this program only one month to apply for a renewal of protection for two years.
A total of 21,990 DACA beneficiaries failed to re-apply, according to USAToday data released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency, the agency that runs the DACA program. 181. The number of days between 5 September and 5 March is an average of 120 DACA beneficiaries who lose their protection from deportation, as well as work permits. DACA defenders frequently cite this figure to explain why it is important not to wait until 5 March to address the DACA issue.
Donald Trump has given Congress an opportunity until then to come up with legislative reform that would allow "dreamers" to stay in the United States permanently instead of continuing to postpone their temporary deportation, without adopting a way to legitimize their immigration status.
"Every day it is late, there are more people at risk of deportation," said Karenna Ruiz, director of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition. "It has to happen sooner rather than later.
Some 14,600 "dreamers" have seen their deportation postponed and work permits extended since 5 September. All permits will expire by the end of September 2019
Trump said on Thursday that he hoped an agreement would be reached with the Democrats to address the "dreamers" legal situation, but reiterated that any immigration solution must also include the promised border wall.
"I can tell you that the Republicans want to see it solved very well, and we are getting support from the Democrats," Trump said after a meeting on immigration with Republican senators. "I think the DACA will be fantastic.
At the same time, a group of bipartisan senators is working on a bill that will address the "dreamers" and at the same time introduce changes to the country's immigration system, including the possibility of reducing family-based legal migration. Makes it easy to deport minors who are only resident from Central America and to dispose of the visa lottery program.
When the DACA program ends on March 5, the number of people with expired DACA permits will jump from about 120 per day to approximately 165.1 per day. According to the USCIS since Obama created the DACA program in 2012, about 800,000 requests from "dreamers" to postpone the relocation were approved under the same program.
Of these, some 40,000 people found ways to legitimize their situation, and some 70,000 persons either did not renew at the end of the biennium or were rejected for renewal. Thus, 689,800 people remained with "DACA" until the day Trump announced that he had finished the program.