As many as 13 thousand DACA recipients in Colorado are once again waiting, to learn more about what will happen to them…
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They’re Coloradoans who arrived in the US as children, and received federal protection from deportation. A federal judge has ruled that efforts to turn the Obama administration’s program “DACA,” or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, into a nationwide regulation were illegal. Recipients now have to wait for the fate of the program to be decided by the Supreme Court. Josh Stallings of the non-profit Juntos (HOON-tohss) Community says that group’s using the time until such a ruling comes down, to focus on what Colorado can do between now and then. The state’s already taken some key actions, like passing House Bill 21-77 two years ago, allowing DACA recipients without Social Security numbers to obtain professional licenses…
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To get that feedback, his group’s launching an online survey, hoping to learn what Colorado might do differently on the legislative side. While the federal DACA program’s kind of in limbo, Stallings hopes the feedback will create new solutions for people who’ve been waiting for answers about their futures, making sure that community’s fully informed about the rights they have.
TAG– The survey is online in both English and Spanish, and there’ll be some in-person listening sessions soon, too.