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Indian-American Attorney Admitted to New Jersey Bar

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Indian-American attorney Parthiv Patel, who had arrived in the US as an undocumented immigrant, has been admitted to the New Jersey Bar Association.

Patel is the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient to have been admitted to the New Jersey Bar Association.

DACA is an Obama era programme which prevented illegal undocumented immigrants, who came to the US as children, from being deported.

US President Donald Trump had withdrawn DACA, which comes into effect in March. Several thousands Indian-Americans are likely to be affected by a change in DACA policy.

Patel, who passed the bar exams of both New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 2016, was administered the oath of office by the New Jersey Attorney Gurbir Grewal, the first Sikh to hold this position nationwide, on Wednesday.

"We're making it absolutely clear today that we will use all of the tools of the attorney general's office to protect the rights of 'Dreamers' like Parthiv, to enjoy that American dream, and to ensure the safety and well-being of all New Jerseyans regardless of their immigration status," Grewal said at the swearing in ceremony attended by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.

Murphy announced that New Jersey will join a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop it from dismantling the programme that protects undocumented immigrants raised in the US from deportation.
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So here is a American success story.

Indian-American Attorney Admitted to New Jersey Bar - News18
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
So here is a American success story.

Indian-American Attorney Admitted to New Jersey Bar - News18
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OK, and here is not an American success story:

A man accused of killing a South Carolina high school student had been protected from deportation under the DACA program, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday evening.

Daniel De Jesus Rangel-Sherrer, 19, is accused of murder, kidnapping and possession of a weapon during a violent crime in connection with the death of 18-year-old Diana Martinez-Gonzalez.

Martinez-Gonzalez, a junior at Greenville High School, was found dead in a wooded area Oct. 4. Officials said she had been forced into the woods and shot multiple times in the head.

"Immediately upon contact, [Rangel-Sherrer] confessed to one of the deputies," Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis told reporters.
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Illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old student was in DACA program | Fox News
 
Dueling anecdotes, nice. Here are the criteria for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Everyone who was admitted to this program qualified under these criteria, which include having no felonies, being present in the US since 2007, coming here before age 16, and either being in school, the military, or having a high school degree. There are about 800,000 of these folks in the US and they need to renew their status every 2 years. Given those qualification criteria, I'd say anecdote #1 is likely more representative than anecdote #2.
 
RationalPolicy said:
Dueling anecdotes, nice. Here are the criteria for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Everyone who was admitted to this program qualified under these criteria, which include having no felonies, being present in the US since 2007, coming here before age 16, and either being in school, the military, or having a high school degree. There are about 800,000 of these folks in the US and they need to renew their status every 2 years. Given those qualification criteria, I'd say anecdote #1 is likely more representative than anecdote #2.
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It’s a mixed bag. No one dares to do a study, but California prisons have plenty of dreamers for crimes from A to Z. I won’t hold my breath waiting for them to be deported from California.

They are not all valedictorians as the left is selling, and they aren’t all criminals, either.
 
chuckiechan said:
It’s a mixed bag. No one dares to do a study, but California prisons have plenty of dreamers for crimes from A to Z. I won’t hold my breath waiting for them to be deported from California.

They are not all valedictorians as the left is selling, and they aren’t all criminals, either.
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I don't doubt that there are some Dreamers who are criminals. They would not be able to have their status renewed at the next time of renewal, so I think that would be the solution to the problem. I am all for giving someone the chance if they are, at the time of application, not a criminal, either working or in school, and did not illegally come here of their own volition. I think the renewal process is important because it allows the government to screen out those applicants who, in the interim when they have legal status, no longer meet those criteria. I don't see a reason why we should offer total blanket amnesty for everyone forever, but I also don't see a case for blanket removal of their legal status. I think case-by-case assessment is usually the best way to do things, and this is no exception. Of course, that may require some better funding of these departments so we can actually process applications and get these assessments done in a somewhat timely manner, but that's an entirely different story.
 
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