Hundreds of rejected DACA renewal applications may get a second chance
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Campaign Action This is a BFD. Hundreds of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal applications that were rejected by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services because they were received past the government’s October 5 deadline despite bHundreds of rejected DACA renewal applications may get a second chance
Campaign Action This is a BFD. Hundreds of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal applications that were rejected by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services because they were received past the government’s October 5 deadline despite being sent off well in advance by DACA recipients may get a second chance. Vox’s Dara Lind writes that it’s “the biggest immigration reversal of the Trump administration to date”: Reporting in recent days by Vox and the New York Times showed that an untold number of those applications had been mailed well in advance of the deadline — and had been delayed due to a mysterious weeks-long Postal Service slowdown, or had been dropped in a US Citizenship and Immigration Services mailbox on October 5 but not picked up by a courier service until the next day. On Wednesday night, the Department of Homeland Security announced that those DACA recipients will be allowed to reapply for renewal. The Trump administration isn’t guaranteeing that these applications will be approved. But it’s at least agreeing to consider applications it had previously rejected out of hand. “The Trump administration ... doesn’t usually reverse its position in order to give unauthorized immigrants a pass,” writes Lind. When the first group of undocumented immigrant youth first came forward to the New York Times about a week ago to reveal their renewal applications had been rejected despite some being sent certified mail as early as September 14, the Times reported that USCIS “said nothing more could be done. The decisions were final.” “I don’t care if it was incompetence by one federal agency or the other,” Illinois Congressman Luis Gutiérrez said at the time, “the DACA applicants did everything right and they are still getting rejection notices and their whole lives in this country and the hopes and dreams of their families are at stake.” Read more