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Why Many Immigrants Are Aging Out of the DACA Program
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor at Newhouse with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), was interviewed by NPR’s Morning Edition, “New rule shields DACA from being challenged in court.” Kocher explains this new rule saying, “So by putting the original…
University Reappoints Ad Hoc Committee on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals/Undocumented Students
Syracuse University is reappointing the Ad Hoc Committee on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)/Undocumented Students. The committee was initially established in February 2017, when Chancellor Kent Syverud charged the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, the Council on…
Sessions Dismissal of DACA No Surprise
It took nobody by surprise when Attorney General Jeff Sessions endorsed and helped rescind the DACA act that protected so many in the United States. He has long been a proponent of such an act, dating back to its inaugural…
The White House And Congress Are Passing DACA Around Like It Is A Political Hot Potato
Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and a researcher of immigration and citizenship, offered remarks ahead of the impending announcement that the Trump administration plans to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…