In 2012, then president Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme after President Donald Trump announced earlier this month that he would be discontinuing the DACA programme.

Since no details are available so far about how the programme will be wound up and which category of beneficiaries will face deportation, Gupta can’t even take RECOURSE to consulting immigration lawyers. His job and life in the US are now hanging fire, since his permanent residence status, which he has applied for, will take YEARS to process. Trump had announced on September 4 that he would be cancelling DACA, which protects from deportation around 8,00,000 people who had moved to the US illegally as children and provides them with temporary work or study permits. Trump has given Congress six months to enact a replacement plan for DACA RECIPIENTS.

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While talks were on between Democrats in Congress and Trump earlier this week on legislation to protect young undocumented migrants, who were Trump has given Congress six months to enact a replacement plan for DACA recipients. While talks were on between Democrats in Congress and Trump earlier this week on legislation to protect young undocumented migrants, who were DACA beneficiaries and are commonly referred to as Dreamers, an agreement had not been reached. Immigration lawyers and experts in the US are trying to figure out the extent of damage that the termination of DACA will have on young people and Indian American families who benefitted from it.

“If a young person has received DACA authorisation, it has raised the hopes of this young person and the parents. The CHILD can now find a proper job and embark upon a career. Losing DACA authorisation is like shattering the American dream. The child can no longer work and pursue his or her dream in America,” says Cyrus Mehta, an immigration attorney in New York.

Many Indian DACA recipients have embarked on successful careers in the fields of business, medicine and architecture, adds Mehta. While, in many cases, the parents may be undocumented, that the child at least had DACA was a relief for the family. In other cases, the parent may be legal, but the young adult may not be because the child had aged out and could not get the green CARD with the parent. In this situation, losing DACA is even more devastating.

Challenges Ahead

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South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a civil rights and racial justice organisation, are now supporting calls by Democrats in Congress for the immediate passage of the , some US states have sued the Trump administration on the grounds that suddenly rescinding DACA was in violation of the due process clause and also violative of proper administrative procedures.

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