Bummer: Trump Admin Slow Walking DACA Renewals

Would this be the same DACA system that Obama said was unconstitutional before enacting it?

DACA renewal delays fuel worries Trump is quietly undermining ‘Dreamers’

Concerns are mounting on Capitol Hill and among immigration advocates that the Trump administration is quietly gutting a landmark program allowing unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay, work and study legally in the United States.

A major immigrant rights advocacy group recently documented in a study that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is taking months longer on average to renew legal protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, often referred to as “Dreamers.”

Those delays are causing some supporters of the program on Capitol Hill to worry the Trump administration is weaponizing bureaucracy to undermine DACA. In floor speeches and on social media last week, prominent Democrats accused the Trump administration of targeting DACA recipients unfairly as part of the White House’s immigration crackdown.

What they mean by Capitol Hill concern is that Democrats are seeing issues with potential Democrat Party voters

“I can’t see how it’s not intentional,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), one of the main legislative champions for the DACA program, said in a brief interview. “In previous years, we’d get maybe a dozen cases” in which DACA recipients were left waiting for long stretches of time for their work permits to be approved. Now, Padilla notes, “it’s in the hundreds.”

On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) said she had “serious concerns” about the slowdown in processing.

Well, mostly Democrats, because Salazar has gone all Bush 43, Lindsay Graham, and even Newt Gingrich in pushing what is essentially amnesty with her Dignity Act.

“These delays are leaving hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who grew up in America stuck in legal limbo, unable to participate in the workforce and contribute to communities they call home,” Salazar said in a statement to POLITICO.

Federal law states they are here illegally, and the penalty is a small fine, detainment up to 6 months, and deportation. It says nothing about age.

Doug Rand, a former senior adviser to USCIS during the Biden administration, accused the administration of slow-walking renewals to circumvent court orders preventing the White House from eliminating DACA outright.

“Trump’s people found an end run: Just don’t do the work,” he said.

Good. Keep it up. And keep this up

ICE Deportation flights hit highest level under Trump

Deportation flights carrying immigrants out of the United States surged in May to their highest monthly level since President Donald Trump returned to office, reflecting the administration’s intensified push to expand immigration enforcement and accelerate removals.

According to data reported by the Washington Examiner, nearly 300 deportation flights departed the United States during May, marking a significant increase in removal operations compared with previous months and underscoring the administration’s efforts to fulfill its pledge of large-scale deportations.

Yay!