Immigration Action Helps Keep Families Together and Protects Workers
December 1, 2014
Immigrant communities and labor and advocacy groups celebrate an important step made by President Obama to improve the lives of immigrant families and workers. On November 20, the President announced his plans to begin fixing the broken immigration system in the U.S.
The President created a new program called Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA). Under this program, persons will be temporarily protected from deportation from the United States and receive work authorization. The qualifications to be eligible for DAPA are the following: a person must
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