@David_J_Bier (Twitter)

This one is slippery, but it deems anyone now in DACA to have provision protected presence-which is limited to just 3 years. So once they apply and go through the process, they won’t be able to apply and get 3 MORE years on top of their existing DACA.

Unlike DACA, it stops Dreamers from leaving & reentering to register a legal admission, which is a prerequisite for adjusting status to legal permanent residence. This would prevent Dreamer spouses of U.S. citizens from getting real permanent status

Once again, this makes clear that this program is not a continuation of DACA as the status cannot be renewed (unlike DACA!).

Same point here. The DACA program-or this replacement program-doesn’t even continue for 3 years because applications are cutoff after 2, preventing people from getting renewals just before the cutoff and extending

Oh, and this makes it clear that the DACA program is dead. Anyone who dropped out or didn’t apply for fear of what Trump (or Obama!) would do or anyone too young to have applied cannot apply for this program.

This provision is so insane I had to do a doubletake. It would require Dreamers to pay back to the US government any *legally obtained* tax credits. Mouth agape.

This would exclude Dreamers who are here illegally because of a removal order, yet the whole point of DACA was to provide lawful presence to those here illegally. This provision narrows the Dreamer eligible population even further.

This provision also applies the inadmissibility determination for those who erroneously claimed to be U.S. citizens. This is a common phenomenon among Dreamers because many of them don’t ever realize that they are here illegally until they claim otherwise!

This provision goes even further and bans Dreamers who cannot prove BY CLEAR AND CONVINCING evidence that they cannot support themselves at 125% of the poverty line. Most Americans consider Dreamers to be Americans & this is unAmerican

The bill also applies the “public charge” ground of inadmissibility to Dreamers-which is not required under DACA. The new DHS public charge rule would ban anyone who is even 5% dependent on any level of government, even state or local aid. P. 1238