Giving Compass' Take:

· Yolanda Martinez at provides insight into some of the immigration programs the Trump administration is trying to change and how they affect people. 

· What are some of the programs the Trump administration is hoping to weaken, change or eliminate? How will these changes impact the US economy and wellbeing? 

· Learn about historically exclusionary immigration policies.

The Trump Administration says it is trying to secure the southern border of the United States from what it describes as a flood of criminals. But in fact its immigration policies are affecting a wide variety of people—more than 1.1 million—many of whom live far from the Rio Grande. Here are some of the programs the administration is trying to change, their current status, and, where known, the number of people whose lives hang in the balance:

  • DACA
    Close to 800,000 immigrants living in the United States are anxiously watching lawsuits that are trying to preserve the program that has allowed them to remain in the country legally. Under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, people whose families brought them to the United States as children without legal status received renewable two-year permits to forestall deportation.

In 2017, the Trump administration announced it wanted to end the program. The U.S. Supreme Court is now considering a petition from the White House to hear three cases challenging that policy.

  • Temporary Protected Status
    The Trump administration has also announced plans to end large parts of a program affecting 325,000 immigrants from countries deemed too dangerous to return to because of natural disasters or war. The administration wants to eliminate protections for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, who together account for the majority of the immigrants covered by the program. A federal court judge in the Northern District of California recently blocked that move at least until April.

Read the full article about immigration in America by Yolanda Martinez at The Marshall Project.