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Read the latest news impacting DACA and Dreamers, along with recent advocacy and legal documents from the higher education community.

In News
Survey: DACA Recipients Face Job Loss and Other Stresses
Inside Higher Ed | April 3, 2020
In Op-eds
There’s Only One Thing Stopping Trump From Deporting Health Care Workers
"Allowing DACA’s termination would undermine the extraordinary measures being applied by states, universities, hospitals and private institutions across the na…
By Bill Aseltyne, Beth Essig, Debra L. Zumwalt, and Abbe R. Gluck (nytimes.com, sub. req.)
In News
The Next Coronavirus Relief Bill Must Protect Dreamers—for Their Safety and Ours
Slate | March 28, 2020
In News
‘Dreamers’ Tell Supreme Court Ending DACA During Pandemic Would Be ‘Catastrophic’
The New York Times (sub. req.) | March 27, 2020
In News
Trump to Weigh Dreamers’ Fate as Part of Broader Immigration Deal During Election
Politico | March 5, 2020
In News
Organization Doubles College Scholarships Awarded to Illinois’ DACA Recipients
The Chicago Sun-Times (sub. req.) | February 18, 2020
In Op-eds
As the Supreme Court Considers DACA, My Future in the United States Hangs in the Balance
"Clearly, Dreamers aren’t the only ones who benefit from our presence in this country. From the employers who hire us to the businesses we support, Americans r…
By Fernanda Herrera Spieler, a second-year law student at Loyola University (chicago.suntimes.com)
In Op-eds
ICE Says It Will Deport Dreamers. Will the Supreme Court Let It?
"If DACA is terminated, hundreds of thousands of young people will be forced out of their jobs and put at grave risk of deportation to countries most of them d…
By Alida Garcia, vice president of advocacy at FWD.us (newsweek.com)
In News
Undocumented ‘Dreamers’ Can Now Become Attorneys in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune | January 30, 2020
In Op-eds
Protecting the Dreamers
"The potential of a ruling that ends DACA simply underscores the urgency of finding a permanent legal solution that won’t be subject to executive orders."
By AAU President Mary Sue Coleman (aau.edu)
In Op-eds
DACA Should Never Have Come to This: Supreme Court With Future of ‘Dreamers’ in Its Hand
"At its heart, DACA is simply a choice to give greater priority to enforcing immigration law against bad people (law-breakers, for example) and leaving alone t…
By the Baltimore Sun editorial board (baltimoresun.com)
In Op-eds
American Classrooms Need Dreamers
"DACA is critical to the mission of my college and many others, and it brings immeasurable benefits to life both inside and outside of the classroom for all of…
By Sarah Bolton, president of The College of Wooster (cleveland.com)
In Op-eds
Why We Took Our Fight for DACA Recipients All the Way to the Supreme Court
"Standing up for DACA students is not only the right thing to do morally, it is also the right thing to do competitively."
By Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corporation, and Christopher L. Eisgruber, president of Princeton University (time.com)
In Op-eds
What Abolishing DACA Would Mean for Thousands of Admirable ‘Dreamers’
"Thousands of dreamers have graduated from college in the U.S. How do they do it? The motivation of many of these students is so strong it is almost absurd."
By Donald Graham, chair of Graham Holdings and a co-founder of TheDream.US (washingtonpost.com, sub. req.)
In Advocacy Work
Amicus Brief Urging the Supreme Court to Uphold the Legality of DACA
Submitted to the Supreme Court by ACE and 43 other organizations in October 2019.
acenet.edu | Oct. 4, 2019
In Advocacy Work
Letter from Higher Education Leaders to Congress
In September 2019, the leaders of more than 600 colleges and universities wrote to Congress urging the passage of legislation to permanently protect Dreamers.
acenet.edu | Sept. 19, 2019
In Op-eds
Honor NYC’s Immigrant Students: CUNY’s Chancellor on What Young Dreamers Deserve
"The American immigration story is a story not of public burden, but civic contribution. CUNY is a template for that history — an educational Ellis Island prov…
By Félix B. Matos Rodríguez, chancellor of the City University of New York (nydailynews.com)
In Op-eds
No Need to Deport Me. This Dreamer’s Dream Is Dead
"No one knows what might happen, but I’ve become exhausted by putting my life on hold for a promise of permanent status that might never be fulfilled."
By Tawheeda Wahabzada, a Dreamer working at a nonprofit organization in Washington (nytimes.com, sub. req.)
In Advocacy Work
Letter to Senate on Passing Legislation to Protect Dreamers
ACE and 43 other higher education associations sent this letter to Senate leadership requesting they make passing legislation to protect Dreamers a priority.
acenet.edu | June 27, 2019
In Op-eds
Congress Must Act to Protect Dreamers Still Living in Legal Limbo
"These individuals are Americans in every way but immigration status and continue to suffer because of uncertainties beyond their control. "
By ACE President Ted Mitchell (foxnews.com)
In Op-eds
Congress Must End the Purgatory for ‘Dreamers’
"It is a kind of purgatory that few of us can imagine. And the longer Congress waits, the more excruciating the agony."
By ACE President Ted Mitchell (washingtonpost.com, sub. req.)
In Advocacy Work
Letter from Higher Education Leaders to President Trump
Letter from more than 560 college and university presidents to President Trump in October 2017 in support of the Dreamers.
acenet.edu | Oct. 19, 2017

Newsroom

Survey: DACA Recipients Face Job Loss and Other Stresses

There’s Only One Thing Stopping Trump From Deporting Health Care Workers

The Next Coronavirus Relief Bill Must Protect Dreamers—for Their Safety and Ours

‘Dreamers’ Tell Supreme Court Ending DACA During Pandemic Would Be ‘Catastrophic’

Trump to Weigh Dreamers’ Fate as Part of Broader Immigration Deal During Election

Organization Doubles College Scholarships Awarded to Illinois’ DACA Recipients

As the Supreme Court Considers DACA, My Future in the United States Hangs in the Balance

ICE Says It Will Deport Dreamers. Will the Supreme Court Let It?

Undocumented ‘Dreamers’ Can Now Become Attorneys in Utah

Protecting the Dreamers

DACA Should Never Have Come to This: Supreme Court With Future of ‘Dreamers’ in Its Hand

American Classrooms Need Dreamers

Why We Took Our Fight for DACA Recipients All the Way to the Supreme Court

What Abolishing DACA Would Mean for Thousands of Admirable ‘Dreamers’

Amicus Brief Urging the Supreme Court to Uphold the Legality of DACA

Letter from Higher Education Leaders to Congress

Honor NYC’s Immigrant Students: CUNY’s Chancellor on What Young Dreamers Deserve

No Need to Deport Me. This Dreamer’s Dream Is Dead

Letter to Senate on Passing Legislation to Protect Dreamers

Congress Must Act to Protect Dreamers Still Living in Legal Limbo

Congress Must End the Purgatory for ‘Dreamers’

Letter from Higher Education Leaders to President Trump