The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it is
ending DACA, the Obama-era program that allowed undocumented immigrants who
came to the U.S. as children to remain in the country, while also giving
Congress a six-month window to possibly save the policy.
For those whose permits are set to expire before March 5, 2018,
though, the U.S. government will also allow them to renew their DACA status —
provided their applications are received before Oct. 5, 2017. Currently, there
are about 201,000 young adults whose authorizations are set to expire this
year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security explained Tuesday.
Otherwise, beginning today, the U.S. government isn’t going to
consider any new DACA applications, leaving still hundreds of thousands of its
beneficiaries, known as Dreamers, in legal limbo.