DACA renewal delays fuel worries Trump is quietly undermining 'Dreamers'

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Source: Politico

06/21/2026 12:00 PM EDT


Concerns are mounting on Capitol Hill and among immigration advocates that the Trump administration is quietly gutting a landmark program allowing unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay, work and study legally in the United States.

A major immigrant rights advocacy group recently documented in a study that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is taking months longer on average to renew legal protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, often referred to as “Dreamers.”

Those delays are causing some supporters of the program on Capitol Hill to worry the Trump administration is weaponizing bureaucracy to undermine DACA. In floor speeches and on social media last week, prominent Democrats accused the Trump administration of targeting DACA recipients unfairly as part of the White House’s immigration crackdown.

“I can’t see how it’s not intentional,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), one of the main legislative champions for the DACA program, said in a brief interview. “In previous years, we’d get maybe a dozen cases” in which DACA recipients were left waiting for long stretches of time for their work permits to be approved. Now, Padilla notes, “it’s in the hundreds.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/20/daca-delays-dreamers-uscis-00968561

[pat_k]

1. Of course it is intentional. They are testing ways to "denaturalize."

They are targeting every non-white person they can, documented or undocumented.

The fact they are going after naturalized citizens should tell you everything you need to know.

Whatever legal reason any non-white person is here is being ignored, undermined, or eliminated.

Asylum? F-no. We'll pick you up if you show up in court, deny you access to the legal system , and abuse you until you sign a "voluntary" deportation order.

Green card? Same f-ing thing.

DACA? Same f-ing thing.

Naturalized? Just watch as we win our test "denaturalization" cases.

White immigrants who are here legally under the same laws are being "sweep up" on occasion, but they aren't the target.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Trump WANTS the US to be totally WHITE European or South African.

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

America is a melting pot of peoples from all over the world for many generations going back to the founding of the 18th century.

This is one of many ways to alienate voters.