Sometimes we have to go to Spanish news for info… DACA recipients can’t attend Georgia public colleges.
Court classifies DACA beneficiaries as illegal immigrants
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Edited by Noticias Telemundo
MARCH 7, 2019/8:45 AM EDT
The Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit has issued on Wednesday an opinion that validates the decision of several universities in Georgia not to accept as students to the beneficiaries with the Deferred Action (DACA), which protects from deportation to certain Undocumented youth. This resolution comes after three Dreamers, Elly Marisol Estrada, Salvador Alvarado, and Diana Umaña, put in a lawsuit in 2016 after they denied access to public universities with restricted quotas due to their legal status.
The court alleges that the federal program DACA does not give its beneficiaries "legal presence" in the way it is defined through federal law and, therefore, State educational authorities have the power to implement the admission policy they consider.
The university system allows every person with "legal presence" in the United States to pay the tuition that is charged to the rest of the students resident in Georgia, in a process known in English as "in-state tuition".
In May 2017, a minor court supported the board's argument that there is a difference between "legal presence" and "legal status," and that DACA was a program instituted by an executive order rather than a federal law. In other words, for the purposes of the law, dreamers are "illegal immigrants".
As respondents, the presidents of the Universities of Georgia State University, Georgia College, Augusta University, University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology were personally and official.
The Georgia Board of Regents, which regulates state public universities, approved in 2011 a policy that denies undocumented students access to state universities with limited quotas.
The writing is made public on the same day that the Democratic caucus in Congress ensured the creation of a bill for those covered by the Deferred Action programme for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), temporary protection status (TPS) and parted A deferred forced (DED) access to the citizenship of the country.
"We have a commitment to democratic leadership that we will pass a law that protects the holders of DACA, TPS and DED. (…) It is crucial that we adopt this kind of legislation so that they can call our nation their home, "said Congress's president of the Hispanic Caucus, Joaquín Castro, at a Capitol press conference.
https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/2019/03/07/corte-clasifica-beneficiarios-de-daca-como-inmigrantes-ilegales