DREAMER

The first “Dreamer” to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship is finally poised to attend the University of Oxford after years of uncertainty about whether the U.S. would allow him to return home as a DACA recipient. Federal immigration officials last week approved Jin Park’s application to travel to England in the coming weeks, according to his law firm WilmerHale in Boston. Park, whose family immigrated from South Korea when he was 7 years old, will be joined at Oxford by Santiago Potes, a Miami resident and 2020 graduate of Columbia University in New York who became the second American on DACA status to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship last November, according to the Rhodes Trust.

Roughly 66,000 more would be eligible if new applications were accepted because they met the age requirement — 15 — after the Trump administration tried to end the program in 2017, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. The administration’s monthlong silence had unnerved many DACA recipients and those who wanted to join. “It’s infuriating that we continue to be the punching bag for the administration,” she said of fellow DACA recipients. Trump has tried unsuccessfully to work with Congress on a broader immigration package that would couple DACA with tougher enforcement measures. “We’re going to work with a lot of people on DACA,” Trump told reporters.

HOUSTON Immigrant-led civil rights organization, FIEL, has filed a lawsuit filed against President Donald Trumps administration that claims the administration isnt allowing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applicants to apply to the program weeks after the Supreme Court upheld it. Raed Gonzalez, the attorney handling the class action lawsuit, said he is asking the court to take action to allow DACA applications to be processed in a timely manner. Gonzalez said there was a mandate that said the DACA program was unlawfully canceled. That means the government is preventing new applicants from applying and not upholding the Supreme Courts decisions, Gonzalez said. Espinosa and Gonzalez are encouraging anyone who wants to learn more about the FIEL, the lawsuit or to participate in the lawsuit, to reach out to FIEL Houston or to Raed Gonzalezs law firm.