When President
Obama announced his sweeping unilateral executive action on immigration last
November, administration officials stressed that the new edict would not take
effect immediately. One part of the president's action — changes to DACA, or
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, to extend the period in which illegal
immigrants are protected from deportation to three years from its present two
years, and also to extend work permits for the same time — was scheduled to go
into effect Feb. 18, 2015, three months after the president's announcement. The
other part of the president's action — the newly-created DAPA, or Deferred
Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents — would go into
effect six months after Obama's edict.
The day after Obama's Nov. 20
announcement, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service published
notice that it "expects to begin accepting requests for the Expanded DACA
program on Feb. 18, 2015; and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and
Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program in mid-to-late May 2015." The
dates were set…..To Read More…..
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