from Statista.com
— this post authored by Martin Armstrong
After siding last year with Democrats on the issue of the debt ceiling extension, President Trump’s bipartisan leanings seemed to had gone a step further. In what would have been a U-turn on his September 5 decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), senior Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi claimed that they had come to an agreement with the president to protect the so-called ‘Dreamers’.
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This seeming agreement has since come apart and DACA has now faded into the background with many young adults at risk of deportation.
Caught in the middle of all the politics, with their futures very much in the balance, are around 800,000 people. Brought into the country illegally when they were children, but since granted protection from deportation by the DACA program, all of America’s ‘Dreamers’ are currently set to lose their right to stay by March 2020 unless there is some kind of turnaround in Washington. But what more do we know about these people? Our infographic brings together figures from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a 2017 study to shed some light on the demographic makeup of ‘Dreamers’.
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