Update | The Week of November 27, 2017
Jeffrey Stein // 12/4/17 //
The federal government rejected almost a thousand applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program because the applications were stuck in the mail (NYT).
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen for four days, and civil rights group allege that no information suggested he was an undocumented immigrant (LA Times).
Changing his earlier position, President Trump announced that he did not see a deal with Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi on protecting the “Dreamers” (L.A. Times).
- In response, Senator Schumer and Rep. Pelosi declined to meet with President Trump.
- President Trump responded that he is unsurprised at the refusal to meet.
- It will take a minimum of seven months to implement any legislation aimed at protecting beneficiaries of the rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, write Jacinta Ma and Kristie de Peña at The Hill.
Increased deportations in Atlanta could prove a model for the rest of the country as the Trump Administration continues to target undocumented immigrants, writes Vivian Yee at the New York Times.