Election holds future of young, undocumented immigrants in the balance

Election holds future of young, undocumented immigrants in the balance
A 2017 protest against President Trump's decision to end the DACA program in front the Westfield North County shopping mall. - Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS
The San Diego Union-Tribune
October 24, 2020Bank

SAN DIEGO — Among the many policies that will be on the ballot Nov. 3 is what will happen to the lives of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.The Trump administration has tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which began under the Obama administration. For the past four years, Trump officials have argued that the program is illegal and should be stopped.DACA has so far survived only through court intervention. Even after the Supreme Court issued a decision in June that it should be fully restored because it wa...

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