Ark. Among Ten States Seeking to Terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published July 3, 2017 at 12:34 PM CDT

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Mireya Reith, founding executive director of the Arkansas United Community Coalition at an immigration prayer vigil in Fayetteville last winter.

J. Froelich

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has joinednine state attorneys general and the Governor of Idaho asking U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA, instituted in 2012 by President Barack Obama, has conferred temporary legal status to nearly one million immigrant youth brought unlawfully into the United States by their parents or guardians.