Rachel Weiner reports in the Washington Post:
“At 26, Nurimaro Park was living paycheck to paycheck, helping support his undocumented parents on a tutor’s salary. So when his work permit expired in May, he waited to renew it because the rules allowed for that. He needed time to save up the $495 fee.
Now, he and thousands of others who let their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals permits expire are without legal status in the United States. He and another young immigrant in Northern Virginia are suing the Trump administration in federal court in Alexandria, saying their due process rights have been violated.
“You can’t change the rules on someone without giving them a heads-up first,” said Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, an attorney for the Legal Aid Justice Center representing the two.
Until September, DACA recipients, known as “dreamers,” could file a renewal of their two-year permits up to a year after expiration, a policy laid out on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
“Money is a huge issue; $495 is hard to save up,” said Park, who lives with his parents in Fairfax County. “You have a year of grace period . . . and I was taking advantage of that.”
Nurimaro Park meets with his attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, right. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)[Trump administration announces end of immigration protection program for ‘dreamers’]
Then, on Sept. 5, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the program would end in six months. Although immigrants whose permits are set to expire before March 5 were given the chance to renew them one last time, anyone whose permit had already expired could not.
The DACA program, created by President Barack Obama in 2012, allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children to work legally and attend college.”
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Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, and the Legal Aid Justice Center are out to correct another injustice. Not surprisingly, Attorney General Jeff “Gonzo Apocalypto” Sessions and his “Anti-Dreamer Crusade” are at the center of this controversy.
PWS
11-22-17