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In a second tweet Friday, Simmons attempted to clear the record by saying he’s “never advocated for, nor believed that Dreamers should be targeted by ICE agents.” “Dreamers” is the term used to describe immigrants living in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was designed to protect them from deportation.

Just last month, the Biden administration moved to publish a federal rule to protect Dreamers, children brought to the US illegally by their migrant parents. Currently, the Department of Homeland Security is not accepting new DACA applications, to comply with a federal court ruling.

The Obama-era program currently provides deportation protection and work permits to roughly 590,000 immigrants known as "Dreamers."

The Obama-era program currently provides deportation protection and work permits to roughly 590,000 immigrants known as "Dreamers."

The U.S. deported more than 300 Haitians back to their home country Sunday as the federal government copes with a major spike in border arrivals in the small community of Del Rio, Texas. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joined CBSN to discuss the scale of the situation in Del Rio and how the Department of Homeland Security is responding.

President Joe Biden says the Justice Department intends to appeal a federal judge’s ruling deeming illegal an Obama-era program that's protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.

Biden called on Congress to pass legislation that would protect Dreamers from the threat of deportation.

They then voted 247-174 for a second measure creating similar protections for 1 million farm workers who have worked in the U.S. illegally. While “Dreamers” win wide public support and migrant farm workers are a backbone of the agriculture industry, both House bills face gloomy prospects in the evenly split Senate. Nine House Republicans joined all Democrats in voting for the “Dreamers” measure, but 30 GOP lawmakers backed the farm workers bill, giving it a more bipartisan hue. We don't know what their intentions are,” Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., said of immigrant farm workers who might seek legal status. AdMaine Rep. Jared Golden's vote against the farm workers measure made him the only Democrat to oppose either bill.

For the Biden administration, the increased number of young migrants at the border — now running at several hundred arriving each day — carries risk. AdvertisementThe president and other administration officials have stressed that the border remains closed and that the vast majority of adult migrants are quickly expelled. “The president’s message will get widely distributed,” said Roberta Jacobson, White House coordinator for border issues, in an interview Wednesday with NBC. In House debate Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) lauded Dreamers as teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs and first responders. Border officials are “on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in a statement Tuesday.

Nine House Republicans joined all Democrats in voting for the Dreamers measure but 30 GOP lawmakers backed the farm workers bill, giving it a more bipartisan hue. “These immigrant communities strengthen, enrich and ennoble our nation, and they must be allowed to stay.”Neither House measure would directly affect those trying to enter from Mexico. AdMaine Rep. Jared Golden's vote against the farm workers measure made him the only Democrat to oppose either bill. The Dreamer bill would grant conditional legal status for 10 years to many immigrants up to age 18 who were brought into the U.S. illegally before this year. The other bill would let immigrant farm workers who've worked in the country illegally over the past two years get certified agriculture worker status.

Democrats unveil immigration plan with 8-year pathway to citizenship A bill unveiled by Democrats would enable Dreamers and some farmworkers to gain citizenship in about three years. The process would take eight years for other undocumented immigrants. Nancy Cordes has the details.

When the U.S. Senate passed an immigration reform bill in 2013, farmworkers Francisca Aguilar and her husband, Ruben Cohetzaltitla, got excited at the prospect of attaining citizenship. Citizenship Act, which Biden sent to Capitol Hill on Inauguration Day, offers an eight-year road map to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants in the United States without legal status. “I don’t know that we’re going to get the support of Republicans for an immigration reform [bill] that would cover the 11 million people in this country that don’t have documents,” she said. Advertisement“Even Republicans who have never in Congress voted for any reform bill are realizing that the backbone of agriculture is farmworkers,” she said. He also repealed Trump’s executive order that did away with priorities for immigration enforcement and made all immigrants targets for deportation.

HOUSTON – It is seen as a major victory for more than 640,000 “Dreamers” who can now apply for deferred action through DACA. Now, a mother of two little girls herself, she is relieved DACA was reinstated. She can now apply for the DACA program and once approved, she will receive a work permit and a two-year deferral on deportation. He said the DACA program has made that possible. Damaris Gonzalez, with the Texas Organizing Project, said that DACA being reinstated is just the first step.

It means that, for now, DACA recipients can continue to renew their status, to work and go to school here in the U.S. Non-profit organization, Immigrants Like Us, is aimed at helping Dreamers renew their status online and for free. Dania said renewing her DACA status was an added stressor. The program helps Dreamers renew their status online and for free. The non-profit can also help with naturalization applications, as well as, green card forms.

REUTERS/Jose Luis GonzalezTrump, a Republican, moved in 2017 to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The case went to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in November. HOW WILL THE SUPREME COURT RULE? The Supreme Court is expected to rule by the end of June, but could act sooner. The Trump administration has not said how it will proceed if the Supreme Court allows it to terminate the program.

Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018 invalidated the law as a violation of the U.S. Constitutions First Amendment guarantee of free speech. The law bars inducing or encouraging an illegal immigrant to come to, enter or reside in the United States, including for financial gain. It is one of a number of immigration-related appeals the Supreme Court is handling during its term that ends in June. Trump has made restricting both legal and illegal immigration a centerpiece of his presidency and his re-election bid this year. The Trump administration said the law is not meant to criminalize protected speech, but rather to stop people who would facilitate or solicit illegal immigration and enrich themselves by doing so.

The courts 5-4 conservative majority includes two Trump appointees - Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh - who both indicated support for the presidents action. Trumps administration has argued that Obama exceeded his constitutional powers when he created DACA by executive action, bypassing Congress. Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, wondered if the court should take into account the fact that Trump has said he would look after Dreamers.He hasnt taken care of them, she said. Francisco, who also argued the travel ban case, said the administration was not trying to shirk responsibility for ending a popular program. Trump has given mixed messages about the Dreamers, saying in 2017 that he has a great love for them even as he sought to kill the program that protected them from deportation.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse on a gray and chilly morning to show their support for the Dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally or overstayed a visa as children. DACA, launched in 2012 by Democratic former President Barack Obama, provides roughly 661,000 such immigrants with deportation protection and work permits. She was born in Mexico City, and her mother brought her to the United States at age 5. No DACA opponents were evident outside the Supreme Court, but Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors lower levels of immigration, argued that Trumps termination was lawful. Arisaid Gonzalez Porras and her brother Sergio, both DACA recipients and undergraduate students at Georgetown University, said the court should affirm the programs legality, but that a permanent fix is needed.

He called DACA a temporary stop-gap measure that could be rescinded at any time.He ran into steady criticism from the courts four liberal justices. AdvertisementAt several points, Roberts suggested that the Trump administration may be on firm ground in thinking DACA was illegal. But that affirmed the lower courts ruling blocking Obamas policy. Roberts comments Tuesday suggest conservatives view the DACA program similarly. Trump has said that a court victory that would allow him to end DACA might put pressure on Congress to pass legislation protecting Dreamers.

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Given the conservative majority on the court, the so-called Dreamers best hope for victory almost surely depends on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. And in recent months, the chief justice played a key role in two other immigration victories for Trump. When the cases reached the Supreme Court, Trump and his lawyers have often prevailed. If Obama as president was free to grant temporary relief to the Dreamers, Trump as president is free to change course, he said. The National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles says there are more than 700,000 DACA recipients here now.

The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday facing decisions on the so-called Dreamers, LGBTQ rights, religion and abortion. The cases come before a court with five conservatives appointed by Republicans and four liberals appointed by Democrats. AdvertisementThe falls major cases on LGBTQ rights and the Dreamers are likely to divide the justices along familiar lines. On Nov. 12, the court will hear the case of the Dreamers vs. President Trump. On abortion, the court is poised to rule this term on regulation of doctors who perform abortions but not on an abortion ban.

Pro-immigration activists gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. Scores of the country's largest businesses told the Supreme Court on Friday that allowing President Donald Trump to end the Obama-era immigration program known as DACA will hurt the U.S. economy and reduce job growth. "Eliminating DACA will inflict serious harm on U.S. companies, all workers, and the American economy as a whole," the firms wrote. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the matter in November. "Dreamers have become essential contributors to American companies and the American economy," the companies wrote.

FILE PHOTO: CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 10, 2019. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Nov. 12 over Trumps 2017 plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. A Supreme Court decision is due by the end of June, in the thick of next years presidential race in which Trump is seeking re-election. Apples big tech rival Microsoft Corp has been part of the legal challenge against Trumps DACA effort from the beginning, expressing similar concerns about how its employees would be affected. Trump said he would refuse to grant the exemptions but hoped Apple would build a plant in Texas.

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The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear arguments over the legality of the Trump administration's decision to terminate the Obama-era immigration program known as DACA, which shields certain young migrants brought to the United States illegally from deportation and allows them to receive work permits. Many 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have pledged to reverse Trump's decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and to support the "dreamers," as those protected by the program are known. Trump has not been able to end the program outright, after several lower courts rejected his efforts. But the justices took no action, leaving in place the rulings that blocked the president's efforts to dismantle the program. DACA recipients numbered about 700,000 when Trump ordered the program to wind down in September 2017, according to government figures.

FILE PHOTO: A police officer keeps watch at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 21, 2019. The legal question before the Supreme Court is whether the administration properly followed a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act in Trumps plan to rescind DACA. Trumps administration has argued that Obama exceeded his constitutional powers when he bypassed Congress and created the program. Since the administration launched its appeal, a second regional federal appeals court ruled against Trump. If the Supreme Court takes up the matter, arguments and a ruling would come in its term that ends in June 2020, in the contentious months before the November 2020 election.