These Legal Immigrants Just Blew Up Everything You've Heard About DACA
In June, NBC News published an article about the “tenuous” future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The article followed the stories of several DACA recipients, showing how their lives were changed for the better by the Obama-era program.
The 2012 policy provided work visas to illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children and protected them from deportation. On Oct. 5, a federal appeals court ruled the program is illegal.
DACA has undoubtedly changed the lives of many illegal immigrants, but while the NBC article described the seemingly unlimited upsides to DACA, even comparing it to the GI Bill, it neglected a demographic that the program harmed: legal immigrants.
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