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Immigration,
Government

Sep. 6, 2017

End of DACA is an opportunity for real immigration reform

By eliminating DACA Trump is giving Congress a historic opportunity for immigration reform. This is a chance for lawmakers to enact more profound immigration reform that is fair, enforceable and lives up to the nation’s ideals.

Kevin R. Johnson

Kevin is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Professor of Chicana/o Studies
UC Davis School of Law

Phone: (530) 752-8047

Harvard Univ Law School

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End of DACA is an opportunity for real immigration reform
President Donald Trump speaks as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), looks on during a meeting with congressional leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington, Sept. 5, 2017. (New York Times News Service)

After months of speculation and rumor that has frightened immigrant communities across the United States, President Donald J. Trump has announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

President Barack Obama created the program known as DACA in 2012 to help protect undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. Since 2012 DACA has provided relief, and work authorization, to nearly 80...

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