New practice in Indiana: No professional licenses for DACA recipients

Young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children but granted legal work status, often called Dreamers, are being shut out of scores of professions in Indiana under a new practice implemented by the administration of Gov. Eric Holcomb.

The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency recently added new questions about citizenship status to all of its license applications, allowing it to screen out DACA recipients who the agency says are not qualified to hold professional licenses under a 2011 Indiana immigration law.

The new practice effectively locks out Indiana's roughly 9,000 DACA recipients from more than 70 professional licenses in Indiana, ranging from cosmetology to nursing to architecture. Nearly one in seven Indiana workers are licensed by the agency.

The move has upset some DACA advocates, including Rep. Ed Clere, R-New Albany, who plans to introduce language during a committee hearing Tuesday that would allow Dreamers who have already started studying for a professional field to qualify for a license.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/...nts/373717002/

That really sucks! I wouldn’t be able to work as a registered nurse if I lived there.

Dam can’t even do hair in peace! This is unfortunate.

What do they refer to as professional licenses?

Like a plumber can't get a license to fix toilets or an engineer cannot get a Professional Engineer license?or both.

Eww... why would anyone want to live in Indiana to begin with. That seems like fair punishment for DACAs wanting to stay in that shithole.

ughhh don't u think this might be a constitutional issue? If we can work here... we should be able to get any certification as well or am I crazy?

Fuck Indiana.

Moral of the story - stop stealing redneck jobs like cosmetology and servsafe waiter certs. Surprised they included nursing on there tho.

Who lives in that shithole anyways.

Ppl need to leave those shit states and contribute their taxes to states that want them.

This is fing stupid, This is beyond stupidity, so a FEDERAL issued work permit only works on certain estates?


Why is the DACA issue so difficult to solve? is not like we are finding a cure for cancer, is just a fucking piece of paper for god's sake!!