Legislation to Protect DACA Recipients\/Immigrant Youth<\/a><\/strong>.) Both the Dream Act of 2017 and the USA Act of 2018 include pathways to U.S. citizenship for immigrant youth, but the USA Act also includes several provisions addressing border enforcement and changes to the immigration court system, and it provides for various types of aid to Central American countries, with the aim of addressing the root causes of migration.<\/p>\nThe table available here compares the Dream Act of 2017 with the provisions in the USA Act that would provide relief for immigrant youth. The main differences between the two bills are italicized. We highly recommend that you read the entire USA Act to become familiar with all its provisions and that you monitor activity on these bills and other, similar bills, including the introduction of any amendments to them.<\/span><\/p>\nTo download the table, click on the PDF icon.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1446077129866{margin-top: -15px !important;}”][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar-1″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row el_class=”holder” css=”.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -100px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”0px”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] Side by Side: DACA Solutions in the Dream and USA Acts JUNE 2018 To download the table, click on the PDF icon. On January 13, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it was once again accepting DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) renewal applications. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":707,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34338,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17421\/revisions\/34338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}