| IamAman |
08-01-2020 08:29 AM |
Re: Trump cuts DACA time in half in major rewrite of Obama program
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Originally Posted by Smooth
(Post 750914)
I never understood those arbitrary age requirements. I know someone who could not apply because she came here at 17. Really sucks.
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I can see an age requirement for the age a person was when they came to the US..18 is probably a fair cutoff point since you can argue that an 18 year old was an adult and made the choice to come here, but the upper age limit just makes no sense because between 1982, the cutoff for the 1986 amnesty and 2012 when DACA was announced is 30 years.
That means if the cutoff age is supposed to be 16, someone could have been 15 years old in 1982 when brought to the US and they would have been 45 in 2012. If they really wanted to have an upper age limit to prevent fraud, 45 would have been the correct upper age limit for 2012....of course it would need to be adjusted for updated cutoff dates.
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