{"id":49399,"date":"2022-06-14T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49399"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:27:24","slug":"daca-turns-10-with-dreamers-no-closer-to-solid-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49399","title":{"rendered":"DACA turns 10 with Dreamers no closer to solid ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program turns 10 years old Wednesday, beset by lingering doubts about both its future and the current protections it grants to young immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The program, known widely as DACA, was instituted in a moment of crisis after then-President Obama hit a brick wall in his legislative attempts to modernize the immigration system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For around 800,000 so-called \u201cDreamers,\u201d undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors, DACA made possible a close-to-normal American life with access to work, education, basic government services and reduced risk of deportation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But a decade in, DACA is endangered by court actions and political sclerosis, putting its remaining 611,000 beneficiaries at risk of falling back into undocumented status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49400,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49399\/revisions\/49400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}