People rally outside the Supreme Court over President Trump’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
(CN) Texas and eight other Republican-controlled states urged a federal judge Tuesday to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, sticking to their claims the Obama administration overstepped its authority in creating the program.
Started in 2012 through a memo from then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, DACA allows certain immigrants brought to the country illegally as children to qualify for protection from deportation and allows them to get federal work permits and driver’s licenses that can be renewed every two years.
Dec 22, 2020 / 05:54 PM EST
(CNN) President Donald Trump spent years limiting the number of refugees coming to the United States.
President-elect Joe Biden, meanwhile, has pledged to set the annual refugee admissions cap at 125,000. But first, his team will have to contend with the damage left behind.
The refugee cap, which dictates how many refugees may be admitted to the U.S.
, must be approved by the president. But where the cap has often been viewed as a goal to be reached, the actual number of refugees admitted has fallen short under the Trump administration.
“The program that this incoming administration is inheriting is on its last breath,” said Danielle Grigsby, director of policy and practice at Refugee Council USA. “It’s going to require both political will and an early investment in overturning policies to see the program begin to operate as it can and is intended to.”
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Biden team prepares to revamp the US refugee admissions program
President Donald Trump spent years limiting the number of refugees coming to the United States. President-elect Joe Biden, meanwhile, has pledged to set the annual refugee admissions cap at 125,000. But first, his team will have to contend with the damage left behind.
The refugee cap, which dictates how many refugees may be admitted to the US
, must be approved by the president. But where the cap has often been viewed as a goal to be reached, the actual number of refugees admitted has fallen short under the Trump administration.
“The program that this incoming administration is inheriting is on its last breath,” said Danielle Grigsby, director of policy and practice at Refugee Council USA. “It’s going to require both political will and an early investment in overturning policies to see the program begin to operate as it can and is intended to.”
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