Question

how will DACA being terminated will affect the chicano population

Answer 1

Deportation is indeed the biggest fear but the legal immigration experts says its highly unlikely that everyone would be deported immediately. But the Supreme court ruling determines the next steps.

DACA is granted for two years, so DACA recipients have different expiration dates for their benefits. That means if the program is shut down, people will lose their protection from deportation and their work permission at different times.

But Thomas Saenz says that DACA recipients are entitled to go to court and try to stop removal or deportation.

If that happens, their cases would join backlogged immigration dockets and they could remain in the country until they get their day in court.

But Jorge Loweree, director of policy at the American Immigration Council, says work permits also have expiration dates and to keep all of them from being used after cancellation, they'd have to physically collect them. He also added, ''If DACA is eliminated, it will create a crisis, for lack of a better term, and it’s a political crisis that very few people will be able to ignore."