Sticking Points in the Debate to Protect DACA Recipients

Guest: Charles Kuck, Immigration Attorney, Former President of American Immigration Lawyers Association, Adjunct Law Professor, Emory University An important deadline is arriving for participants in the DACA program that gives two-year work permits to undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children. At President Trump’s order, a six-month wind down period is underway for DACA and no new applicants are being accepted. But there are tens-of-thousands of young immigrants currently safe from deportation under DACA whose two-year work permits will expire in the next few months. And this is the last day they could apply to renew the permit. Those who don’t could face deportation, unless Congress intervenes in the next few months.