Obama’s Immigration Plan Could Affect Millions President Obama’s executive action plans may allow up to five million immigrants in the United States illegally to stay and obtain work permits. An analysis by the Migration Policy Institute estimates how many people would be affected by the changes: NOV. 15, 2014 Arriving as Children Current DACA eligibility Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is a program that allows certain immigrants who were brought into the country as children to stay and work on a temporary basis. Of the nation’s 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants in 2012, about 1.2 million were eligible for the program. The Obama administration is considering expanding eligibility to an estimated 700,000 additional people. 1.2 million eligible 10.5 million not eligible Expansion scenario If the required arrival age for youth were changed to under 18 years from under 16 years, the arrival date for entering the United States changed to June 2011 from June 2007 and the maximum age of 30 eliminated: 1.9 million eligible 1.2 0.7 Extension scenarios Family members If protections were given to parents of children who are American citizens or legal permanent residents, and those parents had been in the country for 10 years: The Obama administration is expected to extend protections to live and work in the United States to as many as 3.3 million parents of children who are American citizens or legal residents, and it could further extend them to parents of DACA-eligible children. Current DACA Parents 1.2 2.5 million Same requirements as above, but if parents had been in the country for five years: Current DACA Parents 1.2 3.3 million Same requirements as above, but including parents of DACA-eligible children: Current DACA Parents 1.2 3.4 million Overall estimate Current DACA Expanded DACA Parents If all of the more extensive expansion scenarios for children and parents listed above were put into place, roughly an additional five million unauthorized immigrants would be extended temporary protections, leaving more than six million unaffected. 0.7 1.2 3.4 million 6.4 million unaffected Note: Estimates are based on 2012 data. DACA eligibility estimates do not include an estimated 470,000 people who have reached or will reach the eligibility age of 15 from 2012 to 2022. Source: Migration Policy Institute By Alicia Parlapiano
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:42:42 +0000
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