SPECIAL EDITION
Vol. 127, No. 105 Monday, March 5, 2018
A&C
MOUNTAIN WEST TOURNAMENT
REFRAME DISABILITY FILM FESTIVAL
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OPINION
SERIOUSLY: EUSTACHY FINDS A NEW JOB PAGE 8
Immigration activists demonstrate outside the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 7 in Washington D.C. as the Senate agreed on a deal to avoid a shutdown that does not include provisions for so-called Dreamers sought by Democrats. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIGUEL JAUREZ LUGO ZUMA PRESS/TNS
DACA deadline arrives with diminished urgency By Elliot Spagat
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A program that temporarily shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation was scheduled to end Monday but court orders have forced the Trump administration to keep issuing renewals, easing the sense of urgency. In September, Trump said he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but gave Congress six months to develop a legislative fix. Those whose permits
expired by March 5 had one month to apply for renewal. A nationwide injunction in January by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco required the administration to resume renewals but does not apply to first-time applicants. Here is where DACA stands on the day it was set to expire: WHAT IS DACA? President Barack Obama introduced DACA in June 2012 by executive action, giving hundreds of thousands of people who came to the country illegally as children two-year, renewable permits to live and work. To qualify,
they needed to have arrived before their 16th birthday, been under 31 in June 2012, completed high school or served in the military, and have clean criminal records. Nearly 683,000 people were enrolled at the end of January, eight out of 10 from Mexico. WHERE DO THE COURTS STAND ON DACA? Alsup ruled Jan. 9 that the administration failed to justify ending the program and that the plaintiffs — the states of California, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota as well as the University of California —
had a good chance of winning at trial. His nationwide injunction required the administration to resume accepting renewal requests within a week. U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in New York later issued a similar ruling. On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the administration’s unusual request to intervene, which would have leapfrogged the appeals court. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put its review of Alsup’s decision on fast track,
but legal experts don’t expect a decision until June at the earliest. From there, it is expected to go to the Supreme Court, likely keeping DACA alive through November midterm elections. IS MONDAY’S DEADLINE NO LONGER MEANINGFUL? Courts have removed much of the urgency, but DACA recipients whose applications are pending are at risk until their petitions are granted. Former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, now Trump’s chief of staff, last year scrapped the Obama see DEADLINE on page 4 >>