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21 CUNY L. Rev. Footnote Forum 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/cunyform21 and id is 1 raw text is: CUNY Law Review Footnote Forum January 29, 2018 Recommended citation: Janet Calvo, Protecting the Rights of DACA Recipients as Persons Residing Under Color ofLaw in New York, 21 CUNY L. Rev. F.1 (2018). PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF DACA RECIPIENTS AS PERSONS RESIDING UNDER COLOR OF LAW IN NEW YORK Janet M. CalvodI INTRODUCTION While the future immigration status of those who enrolled in DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is uncertain, they should remain eligible for both professional licensing and Medicaid in New York as they continue to be PRUCOL, permanently residing under color of law, whether or not DACA is ultimately rescinded. Almost 800,000 non-citizens who came to the United States as children have been afforded DACA.I As of 2017, there were over 40,000 approved DACA recipients (DACAs) in New York.2 The USCIS reported that as of September 4, 2017 there were 32,900 active DACAs in New York . A future immigration status for those with dl Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law. This was written with the research assistance of Bianca Granados and Cheryl Walker, CUNY School of Law 2019, and the comments of Professors Ruthann Robson, Nermeen Arastu, and Natalie Gomez-Velez. 1JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD, DACA HAS SHIELDED NEARLY 790,000 YOUNG UNAUTHORIZED IMljIGRAINTS FR OMDEPORTATiON, PEW RES. CTR.: FACT TANK (SEPT. 1, 2017), HTTP ://WWW.PEWRESEARCH.ORG/FACT-TANK/2017/09/0 1/UNAUTHORIZED- IMMIGRANTS-COVERED-BY-DACA-FACE-UNCERTAIN-FUTURE/?SL&UTM CAMPAIGN=2017- 09-06+PNN&uTm MEDIUM=EMAIL&UTMSOURCE=PEW [HTTPS://PERMA.CC/ZK86-S53 S]. 2 U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION SERVS., No. OF 1-821D, CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS BY FISCAL YEAR, QUARTER, INTAKE, BIOMETRICS AND CASE STATUS FY 2012-2017 (2017), https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports /o20and /o20Studies/Im migration o20Forms o2OData/All o2OForm o20Types/DACA/dacapefformancedatafy20 17_qtrl.pdf [https://perma.cc/T7W6-RP8X]. There were almost 800,000 DACA recipients approved in the country, with the largest number in California, over 200,000. Id. 3 U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION SERVS., APPROXIMATE ACTIVE DACA RECIPIENTS: STATE OF RESIDENCE 6 (2017),

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