Let DACA Kids Pay for Border Wall |
The Republican Hindu Coalition held a rally in Washington, DC Feb. 3, proposing a pathway to citizenship for H-4 children who face the prospect of having to return to India once they turn 21. But, in a novel move, the organization and its supporters tied the fate of H-4 kids to those of Dreamers – 800,000 undocumented youth who receive relief from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. RHC supports a program that would give DACA kids a purple card – as opposed to a green card – with no pathway to citizenship and a mandate to pay $2,500 per year to build President Donald Trump`s much-vaunted border wall. An estimated 7,300 Indian American youth currently receive relief from deportation and work permits from the DACA program. Overall, Asian Americans constitute 20 percent of DACA recipients. Trump rescinded the program Sept. 5, 2017, giving Congress a March 5 deadline to come up with a permanent fix. People attending the RHC rally shouted slogans saying DACA should be renamed DAICA – Deferred Action for Illegal Childhood Arrivals. The group has coined the term DALCA for H-4 children who are aging out of the system: Deferred Action for Legal Childhood Arrivals.
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