Dreamer detained by Ice agents while in process of Daca status renewal

[Eugene]

LBN thread: DREAMer detained by ICE moments after speaking at immigration rally

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Source: The Guardian

Dreamer detained by Ice agents while in process of Daca status renewal

Immigration officials arrested Daniela Vargas, whose father and
brother are also in custody, after she delivered a speech for
undocumented migrants’ rights

Oliver Laughland in New York
Wednesday 1 March 2017 23.23 GMT

A young woman applying for the renewal of her Daca status was arrested and detained by immigration agents in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday, shortly after she addressed a press conference in support of undocumented migrants’ rights.

Daniela Vargas, a 22-year-old who came to the US as a seven-year-old child from Cordoba, Argentina, had told the rally how she dreamed of returning to college and becoming a math teacher, according to her attorneys.

Shortly after the event, as she was driven along an interstate highway by a friend, she was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Agents (Ice) and arrested, said immigration attorney Nathan Elmore. Vargas had been a recipient of Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which allows undocumented migrants relief from deportation and education and work rights.

But her Daca status had recently expired, with her attorneys lodging an unresolved renewal application in recent weeks, Elmore said.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/01/dreamer-detained-ice-agents-daca-immigration-status

[marne23]

1. Immigration policies not making any sense

This kind of things do not make any sense.

There should be any kind of legal protection while the USCIS resolves a case, especially for DACA applicants who are among the most vulnerable groups of immigrants. But... with Trump in office, anything can happen.
I have been checking how to renew a the Daca Status (here it is how rewew DACA) and it seems is quite complicated and a long process too.. Instead of helping those who need it the most, we are pushing them away. But that is Trump's policy.