The Biden administration is preparing to revive what analysts say will be a scaled-down version of former President Obama’s Delayed Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allowed migrants who illegally crossed into the U.S. as minors to remain in the country.
“President Biden is weighing giving out green cards to up to 4,000 undocumented immigrants facing deportation, so long as they have resided in the US for at least a decade and have not been convicted of ‘serious crimes,’” the UK’s Daily Mail reported late last month.
“The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review floated a proposal to make thousands of migrants lawful permanent residents in September 2023,” the New York Post added, citing the DM report.
To qualify for the privileged status, illegal migrants must also have “good moral character” and make the case that they “would suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” if they were deported.
