Supreme Court to hear DACA case while 'Dreamers' who never qualified remain in the shadows
Bittersweet is how Sergio C. Garcia described the moment when the Obama administration announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012.
An undocumented immigrant at the time, Garcia was already over the age of 31 and thus unable to apply, he said. That was the bitter.
The sweet? Getting to see many exit the limbo he had been living in all his life.
"I truly felt that way," said Garcia, who was first brought to the United States from Mexico by his dad at the age of 17 months.
Garcia, 42, is now an attorney in California and a naturalized U.S. citizen. He said he has helped roughly 15,000 people apply to the Obama-era program, which temporarily removes the threat of deportation for certain undocumented immigrants who arrived as children and also grants them authorization to work.
But owing to various eligibility requirements, not everyone can make the cut for DACA. And now the fate of the program is again in limbo after the Supreme Court agreed late last week to hear the case in its next term.
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