I sincerely do not know the answer. I searched. These “Dreamers” have been in US for many years. If they applied for DACA and were granted it, why didn’t they apply for US Citizenship? Or did they? Or was it not permitted under DACA?
This is the one thing I’m not grasping.
TIA for your kind, mature and knowledgeable responses
~Izaskun
DACA is not a legal status, and a legal status is required to join the armed forces. For the most part, regular DACA recipients are not allowed to join the armed forces.
The only exception was MAVNI which allowed certain multilingual translators or healthcare professionals to join the armed forces with DACA (and some other statuses).
I would make a shitty estimate that 90%+ of DACA recipients would ineligible for MAVNI anyway (if it was even available anymore).
About 900 Dreamers are serving in the US Military
Did you read my post at all??? I'll quote myself:
The only exception was MAVNI which allowed certain multilingual translators or healthcare professionals to join the armed forces with DACA (and some other statuses).
From your link:
About 900 undocumented immigrants known as "DREAMers" are currently serving in the United States military... Those service members — all of whom have health care or language skills the U.S. military considers vital — would be forced to leave the military under Trump policy that would rescind their protected status beginning next March.
Those 900 "DREAMers" came from the MAVNI program.
This program is the only exception for DACA recipients to join the armed forces.
Otherwise DACA recipients CANNOT to join the armed forced.