FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, April 27, 2026
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Washington, D.C. – Last week, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) quietly released a decision that would make it easier for the federal government to deport DACA recipients. The decision, which claims that being a DACA recipient is not enough reason to stop the federal government from detaining and pursuing removal proceedings against them, adds to a growing pattern by the federal administration to erode the DACA program, take away people’s work permits and protections from deportation, and destabilize entire communities, families and industries that immigrants help power. A new memo from the Home is Here campaign details the various ways the federal government is dismantling the DACA program, including by detaining over 300 DACA recipients and deporting over 90 since the start of 2025.
The Home is Here Campaign released the following statement:
“The threats to DACA are stacking up—one by one—creating a cascading crisis that is putting the entire program, and the futures of hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients at risk. The BIA decision was yet another alarming step in this administration’s attempt to dismantle the DACA program, using courts it controls to blatantly target DACA recipients without taking responsibility for ending DACA outright.
Whether it is the spike in unlawful detentions and deportations of DACA recipients to the growing administrative delays at USCIS that are leaving DACA renewals in limbo, to now this latest BIA decision, all of it points to the clear and devastating erosion of DACA protections, and our communities are paying the price in real time. We urge Congress to deliver a pathway to citizenship now and use its oversight powers to hold those in the administration who are infringing onto DACA recipients’ rights to account.”
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The Home Is Here national coalition is fighting to protect DACA recipients, their families, and all immigrant communities at the U.S. Supreme Court. DACA recipients are undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. They are also our nurses, our teachers, our coworkers, our family members, and our friends — and their home is here. For more information visit HomeIsHere.Us