Deferred Action (and Mercy) is Dead—Another Effective Program Killed by the Administration

Charles Kuck Blog, Immigration News, News & Videos

For the last decade or so, many immigrants have relied on an unofficial program called “Deferred Action” to obtain time-limited temporary employment permission in cases for which humanitarian considerations called for a degree of mercy that our current legal immigration system does not contemplate.  For example, an undocumented mother whose US citizen child has cancer and needs to be taken …