Daca Renewal News Today

thats next. josé, take it away. ♪ ♪ good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i amjosé diaz-balart. in a few moments, a major announcement from the white house. today president biden is set to announce new actions that would protect undocumented spouses of u.s. citizens from being deported. the policy would allow them to obtain work permits on a case by case basis, and they must have lived in the u.s. as for three years as of yesterday. and it would allow daca recipi...

USCIS DACA renewals are being delayed as the agency prioritizes work permits for migrants, putting recipients' livelihoods at risk.

What is DACA? The Obama era program has allowed hundreds of thousands of people who came to the United States as children to avoid deportation.

Related issue relating to daca. in that case the trump administration tried to essentially cancel daca. the court came down with an interesting ruling where they said a president has a lot of lee way to cancel prior executive actions. the court upheld daca 5 -4. the big difference now is jus justice ginsburg has passed and been replaced. if she votes the other way, that could lead us to the other outcome for daca. >> we appreciate it. congress plays a huge role and can get rid of the uncertainty...

Short-term measure that includes daca, i wonder what you think. i would suspect that democrats and republicans, knowing how this issue has been introduced before, while certainly some are in favor of this, it seems like when it comes to the president that, gets him going back and forth on the issue and increases the lack of clarity on a breakthrough. >> we had a bill this past summer that would have provided a more permanent solution for daca than what is reported as the more temporary solution....

President is considering at this point. here at the white house, things look a lot like they did 10 days ago with the president dug in behind for funding for a border wall and democrats dug in behind their refusal to fund it. all of this as the presidents aides and allies are trying to create confusion about what qualifies as a wall. whether its fencing or steel slats or a concrete wall as the president suggested since his presidential campaign. mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff-budget di...

Updated their website to say that my case had been denied. and i thought it was a glitch in their system. >> reporter: the 28-year-old has been twice granted an immigration benefit known as deferred action for childhood arrivals, or daca. she says she applied for a second renewal in december, but when months passed without an answer, she began to wonder if something was wrong. >> not only was my daca renewal denied, but my current work permit was terminated. >> reporter: jessica was born in mexi...