Small Step Could Bring Big Relief to Young Undocumented Immigrants - The New York Times

For many young people who grew up in the United States, the ability to work legally without fear of deportation has been transformative. They have become nurses, teachers and doctors, and they have bought homes and paid taxes…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/biden-immigration-daca-dreamers.html

Sen. Whitehouse Forcefully Defends DACA in a Judiciary Committee Hearing

May 8 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers remarks in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, "Dream Deferred: The Urgent Need to Protect Immigrant Youth."

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/66eSTZdajNM?si=sINZfIb3yQZStapT

Republican donors to GOP leaders: Bipartisan immigration reform would ease inflation - POLITICO

On DACA's 10th anniversary, a group of GOP business leaders said protecting Dreamers would help ease the nation's labor shortages, reduce food prices and create jobs for all...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/14/republican-immigration-dreamers-00039479

Trump navigates a DACA dilemma with mixed messages after Supreme Court defeat

When President Donald Trump revoked the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017, he said he had “great heart” for the young people it protects. When the Supreme Court blocked his move Thursday, declaring that he didn't follow the right procedure, Trump blasted the ruling and vowed to try again to end the program — all while insisting it was Democrats who have “abandoned” the so-called Dreamers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-navigates-daca-dilemma-mixed-messages-after-supreme-court-defeat-n1231612

The Supreme Court takes on the DACA decision by the Trump administration.

There’s another motive behind Trump’s decision to revoke protections for Dreamers. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/supreme-court-daca-immigration-trump.html

Another appeals court rules against Trump administration's rescinding of DACA - CNN Politics

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration's decision to rescind a program protecting young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from being deported violates federal law.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/daca-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-appeals-court-ruling/index.html

Republicans load spending bill with hard-line measures targeting asylum - POLITICO

The bill doesn't appear likely to end a partial shutdown of the federal government. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/republican-spending-bill-asylum-restrictions-1103837

Koch network focuses on DACA-for-border deal - The Hill

Three groups funded by conservative mega-donor Charles Koch called on President Trump and congressional leaders Thursday to embrace a deal to provide permanent immigration benefits to Dreamers in exchange for border security funding...
https://thehill.com/latino/425905-koch-network-focuses-on-daca-for-border-deal

The shutdown is intractable because Trump’s wall is ridiculous and Republicans know it - Vox

Conservatives won't trade the wall for anything good because they know it's a bad idea. ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/28/18158873/wall-shutdown-trump-dreamers-deal

Corker says Trump could have avoided shutdown - POLITICO

The retiring senator calls the battle "a made-up fight" ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/23/government-shutdown-trump-corker-border-wall-1074500

Judge orders full restart of DACA program - POLITICO

The judge also threatened to vacate the memo ending DACA if Trump officials could not present an adequate reason for ending it. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/03/daca-trump-administration-court-judge-restart-order-722167

Trump’s America goes full Charles Dickens - The Washington Post: Opinion

GOP lawmakers won't help "dreamers" because they can't stand up to Trump ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hollow-compassion-of-trump-wary-republicans/2018/06/13/0059be9c-6f42-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html

Trump’s latest rage-filled tirade unmasks Paul Ryan’s lies - The Washington Post: Opinion

The real reason Paul Ryan doesn't want a vote on the dreamers is that it would pass. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/11/trumps-latest-rage-filled-tirade-unmasks-paul-ryans-lies/

Trump’s Objections Require Some Corrections - The New York Times

President Trump said that American troops would receive the largest pay raise in a decade and that Democrats fought against a solution for Dreamers. Neither claim is true. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/us/politics/fact-check-military-pay-immigrants.html

Trump, Who Singlehandedly Ended DACA, Says Democrats Have Abandoned Dreamers -- Mother Jones

With an immigration deal all but dead, President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Democrats had abandoned the nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. His administration unilaterally moved to end protections for the young immigrants back in September. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trump-who-singlehandedly-ended-daca-says-democrats-have-abandoned-dreamers/

Who's Holding Up Protections For Dreamers? - YouTube -- RWW News

Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and activities of key right-wing figures and organizations by showing their views in their own words. In this video, we look at some of the activists and officials who are working to hold up protections for Dreamers....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht_INmvkFw

A Second Federal Judge Just Blocked Trump From Ending DACA -- Mother Jones

A second federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. The ruling requires the Department of Homeland Security to continue accepting renewal applications for Dreamers protected by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Donald Trump moved to end last year....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/a-second-federal-judge-just-blocked-trump-from-ending-daca/

Trump Wants a Military Parade, Lies About Immigration: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at President Trump ordering the Pentagon to plan a military parade while his administration takes a harsher stance on immigration and insults Dreamers....
https://youtu.be/hFFn8K2O4po

Trump Has Lost the Upper Hand in the Immigration Fight -- New York Magazine

The president took hostages that he's unwilling to shoot. Now, the Dreamers' allies have no reason to pay his ransom. .....
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-has-lost-the-upper-hand-in-the-immigration-fight.html

CNN’s Van Jones Goes Off on Trump for ‘Smearing’ DREAMers in State of the Union -- The Daily Beast

Around this time last year, Van Jones was getting pilloried by the left for declaring that President Donald Trump "became president of the United States in that moment, period" when he led a standing ovation for the widow of a Navy SEAL in his first speech to a joint session of Congress. Tonight on CNN, immediately following Trump's State of the Union address, it seemed as though Jones might be trying to make up for what was arguably a vast overstatement.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-van-jones-goes-off-on-trump-for-smearing-dreamers-in-state-of-the-union