Tag: DACA

President Trump suggests no deal on DACA

US President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that there would be no deal to legalize the status of hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers”, undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children. “No MORE DACA DEAL!” Trump said in an emphatic tweet Sunday morning. DACA refers to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama administration...

April 2, 2018

US apex court refuses to take up DACA case

The US Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case on the DACA programme, which protects about 690,000 young people brought into the country illegally by their parents from deportation. In a brief order, the high court announced its decision not to try the case and so rejected the request of the...

February 27, 2018

US to roll out immigration framework next week

The Trump administration would next week roll out its immigration framework representing a “compromise” that members of both parties can support, the White House said on Wednesday. Press Secretary, White House, Sarah Sanders said after decades of “inaction” by Congress the time has come to work together to solve the issue once and for all. She...

January 25, 2018

President Trump says ‘DACA is probably dead’

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the Obama-era immigration programme “DACA” is “probably dead”, despite the federal government resumed accepting applications for the same on Saturday. DACA is the acronym of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a 2012 programme that gave foreigners who entered the US as minors a legal permit to reside and...

January 15, 2018

Trump lays out immigration deal demands

US President Donald Trump has said that there will be no deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation without funding to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, the media reported. “The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed wall...

December 30, 2017

15 states, DC sue Trump administration over ending DACA

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia sued the US government to block President Donald Trump’s plan to end protection against deportation for young immigrants who New York’s attorney general labeled the “best of America.” The lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn yesterday asked a judge to strike down as unconstitutional the president’s action...

September 7, 2017

American tech giants vow to fight for employees hit by DACA scrapping

The scrapping of the Obama-era amnesty programme known as Deferred Action for Children Arrival (DACA) by US President Donald Trump has not gone down well with the american tech giants. The top bosses of companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, have expressed displeasure over the move and pledged to stand by their employees after the Trump administration...

September 6, 2017

Indian immigrants in US fear deportation post DACA repeal

Thousands of people from India, who arrived in the US illegally as children, are fearing deportation after President Donald Trump’s decision to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) programme, a South Asian Advocacy group has said. The number of such people from India, could be more than 20,000, according to an estimate carried...

September 6, 2017

Trump says ‘great love for young immigrants’ after DACA repeal

US President Donald Trump has said that he has great love for young immigrants who came to America as children and hoped that the Congress would bring in a legislation to help them, hours after he scrapped an amnesty programme for 800,000 undocumented workers. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday announced the rescinding of the...

September 6, 2017

Trump scraps Obama-era amnesty prog; 7,000 Indians to be hit

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era amnesty programme that granted work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children, a move likely to impact 800,000 undocumented workers including more than 7,000 Indian-Americans. “I am here today to announce that the programme known as DACA (Deferred Action for Children Arrival)...

September 5, 2017

Trump to end undocumented immigrants protection

US President Donald Trump has decided to end a programme that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children with a six-month delay, the media reported. Trump has wrestled for months with whether to do away with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme introduced by his predecessor Barack Obama...

September 4, 2017

DACA: Tim Cook stands behind Apple’s employees

Apple CEO Tim Cook became the latest voice against US President Donald Trump’s stance on scrapping Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme. Reaffirming his support for the company’s employees on Twitter, Cook became the latest joined in the group that has raised its voice against the Trump stance. “250 of my Apple co-workers are...

September 4, 2017

Will defend dignity in ties with US: Mexico President Pena Nieto

Mexico will not accept any condition that are damaging to its dignity, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said in an oblique reference to the US. During his fifth state of the nation address, the first since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the US president, Pena Nieto spoke of his country’s newly tense ties with Washington,...

September 3, 2017

Satya Nadella criticises Trump’s stance to end DACA

Soon after it was reported that US President Donald Trump may roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith have criticised the presidential stance. The DACA programme was established by former US President Barack Obama to shield hundreds of thousands of undocumented youths...

September 1, 2017