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    What does the BIA Decision Mean for DACA recipients?

    What does the BIA Decision Mean for DACA recipients?

    Diana Pliego and Kevin Siegel

    Published Apr 30, 2026 If someone with DACA gets arrested and detained by immigration or other law enforcement and ends up before an immigration judge, the judge may now look into their case more closely to comply with the BIA decision. However, the decision does not...

    What is Actually Happening with DACA?

    What is Actually Happening with DACA?

    Diana Pliego

    Published Oct 3, 2025 There’s a lot of chatter going around about what is happening with Deferred Action for...

    Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today

    Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today

    Diana Pliego and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jan 17, 2020 Earlier this week, on January 13, 2020, we marked the two-year anniversary of the first injunction that reopened the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal application process. The first injunction and the injunctions that...

    Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay

    Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay

    Diana Pliego

    Published Oct 25, 2019 Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases. But it will be doing more than that. Its deliberation, on any scale, is a debate over whether I and hundreds...

    Dream and Promise Act: An Important Step Forward for Our Communities

    Dream and Promise Act: An Important Step Forward for Our Communities

    Diana Pliego

    Published Mar 14, 2019 Earlier this week, a bill — the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would provide long-overdue, permanent relief to people who have become even more vulnerable since President Trump and...

    Tips on How to be a Better Ally for the Immigrants’ Rights Cause

    Tips on How to be a Better Ally for the Immigrants’ Rights Cause

    Diana Pliego

    Published Dec 8, 2017 On Wednesday, thousands of immigrants and allies hit the streets to demand the passage of the Dream Act before the end of the year, and it was amazing. Over 200 people put their bodies on the line and were arrested demanding the...