Protected but deported anyway, as Trump goes after 'dreamers'
Home is Here says the administration has arrested at least 343 DACA recipients and deported at least 86, prompting court fights over returns.
- Despite the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protecting around 500,000 people, the Trump administration has arrested at least 343 recipients and deported at least 86, according to the NGO Home is Here.
- Immigration officials deported individuals including Jose Contreras and 42-year-old Maria de Jesus Estrada based on old pending orders, though U.S. courts ultimately ruled those specific deportations illegal and ordered their return.
- After being flown to Honduras, Contreras spent 118 days abroad missing his son's birth, while DACA beneficiary Jessica Trevino now lives in Matamoros, Mexico, hoping to return for her daughter's 15th birthday.
- Legal challenges persist, with lawyer Stacy Tolchin describing these cases as an 'unlawful and inhumane distortion of the law,' while FWD.us President Todd Schulte argued officials are 'dismantling DACA through delay, denials, detentions and deportations.'
- With previous attempts by President Donald Trump to terminate the 2012 program blocked by courts, Congress faces pressure to provide a permanent legislative solution to the immigration imbroglio.
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Stories of separate families and deportations of DACA beneficiaries rekindle the debate about the future of "dreamers" in the United States.
Protected but deported anyway, as Trump goes after 'dreamers'
The day Contreras got the shocking news, at a routine immigration hearing, he said officials laughed when he asked for a stay extension because his wife was about to have their first child. "They looked at me like I had a third eye," Contreras told AFP. He was deported to Honduras that same day, and spent 118 days there until he made it back, thanks to a court order. Contreras is one of several hundred people caught up in a particularly sad and …
However, more than 300 persons protected by the programme were arrested, and at least 86 were expelled.
José Contreras learns that he will be expelled from the United States, a country where he enjoys the protection afforded by the "Dreamers" programme.
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