5 facts about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
5 facts about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which President Obama signed two years ago.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
5 facts about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which President Obama signed two years ago.
About as many Hispanics support the current system for deciding immigration cases as do those expediting the process (49% – 47%), which would have the effect of speeding up deportations.
New data shows that thousands of unaccompanied Mexican children caught at the border have crossed into the U.S. multiple times.
The U.S. tech landscape would look very different without immigrants.
The number of unaccompanied children from Mexico and Central America who were apprehended at the U.S. border has nearly doubled in less than a year.
The slowdown in growth of the Hispanic foreign-born population coincides with a decline in Mexican migration to the U.S.
The number of unaccompanied girls from three Central American countries caught at the Southwest border, particularly those ages 13 to 17, has increased more rapidly this year than the number of boys.
The White House is under pressure from Democrats and Latino leaders to ease deportations, as the number of unauthorized immigrants sent home neared 2 million under the Obama administration. Last week, National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguía called the president the “deporter-in-chief.”
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