This memorandum was what set forth the prosecutorial discretion that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) now offer to those individuals who came to America as children and consider it their only home.
The Dept. of Homeland Security issued this notice to USCIS to specifically define the requirements for the DACA program and to allow room for comments and questions from USCIS.
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This case re-emphasizes the standards for DACA as set forth in the memorandum released by Janet Napolitano.
Because this memorandum became in effect a little over a year ago, not too many cases have arisen to debate the fundamental terms of the memorandum. However, the following few cases do further clarify the limits of the 2012 DACA memorandum.
This case further limits DACA and concludes that while it does defer removal of undocumented individuals who arrived to the U.S. as children, it does not directly provide lawful status.
This link directs to the statute under the Code of Federal Regulations, which states that an individual who has received deferred action is qualified to accept employment.