Court ruling narrows pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients

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Set us as preferred WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has largely ended a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients who marry U.S.citizens.President Trump tried, unsuccessfully, to end DACA during his first term.

This week’s action reflects his administration’s ongoing focus on the Obama-era program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants, often referred to as Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S.as children.

Politics DACA renewal delays are costing some recipients their jobs and exposing them to deportation risk as the Trump administration chips away at protections for immigrants brought to the U.S.as children.“It was inevitable that what Trump was going to do in office this time was to embark on a massive delegalization mission,” said Karen Tumlin, director of the Justice Action Center in Los Angeles.

“That’s what this is.”Tumlin was referring to a ruling by an administrative immigration court that was published Thursday.The ruling concerns a travel provision afforded to recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program created in 2012.The provision allowed DACA recipients to travel in ways other people without legal status cannot.DACA isn’t technically a form of legal status, though its recipients are granted work permits.

For immigrants who entered the U.S.illegally, leaving the country or being deported triggers a penalty — many are banned from coming back into the U.S.

for a decade.Most people who qualify for legal residency, or a green card, have to serve that 10-year ban before they can apply for a green card, which can lead to citizenship.But DACA recipients, under the travel provision called advance parole, could leave the U.S.

for school, work or humanitarian reasons.When they returned through an airport or border, the stain of their origina...