If a current employee presents a new DACA EAD, the employer may need to amend the employee’s I-9 or complete a new one. That includes 14,900 DACA recipients, employed in roles such as cashiers (6,000); stockers and laborers (2,900); and supervisors (1,200).From farms to grocery stores and distribution centers to restaurants, more than a quarter of employed DACA recipients—142,100—work in food-related occupations or industries across the country. According to MPI, over 380,000 current DACA recipients are employed in the United States. During this time of uncertainty, rather than rip these and hundreds of thousands of other DACA recipients out of the workforce, the Trump administration should immediately extend work permits of at least those DACA recipients whose protections recently have expired or are set to expire in 2020. Breaking these data down at the state level shows significant economic activity and contributions in all 50 states.Additionally, DACA recipients own 56,000 homes, making an annual $566.9 million in mortgage payments.
In a Center for American Progress survey of roughly 3,000 DACA recipients, nine-tenths of respondents said they had jobs. 9. But you should also be aware of your employment rights. … Highlights: The data tools offered here provide the numbers of DACA recipients at U.S. and state levels as of March 31, 2020 and offer MPI estimates of the population that would have been eligible to apply based on the program's original rules. The Obama administration in November 2014 had expanded DACA eligibility and the period of deferred action to three years, and it created a program called Deferred Action for … On an individual level, there are probably DACA recipients who have jobs other Americans want.
A valid employment authorization document (EAD) issued under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is an acceptable List A document for Form I-9 employment verification purposes, USCIS has advised.
Without question, now is not the time for the Court to permit the administration to recklessly end DACA and it is not the time to take any actions that may jeopardize the health and safety of the nation.On the production end, 12,800 DACA recipients work in the farming and agriculture industry—with the vast majority as agricultural laborers—and 11,600 DACA recipients work in the food manufacturing industry, processing these agricultural products into a food product that can be sold.And these statistics likely don’t capture another critical group: DACAmented warehouse workers, now playing a larger role in moving food directly to consumers across the country, along with gig economy delivery drivers. Despite the fact that this sector includes so many different occupations, all food-related workers are undoubtedly impacted by COVID-19 in one way or another.This list (Table 2) of essential health care and public health workers, though, goes far beyond these nurses, lab techs, and home health aides, as the DHS delineation of essential workers covers a wide range of both industries and occupations. The notion that immigrants “steal” jobs from native-born Americans is deeply ingrained for many people, but it makes little practical sense, particularly so when it comes to DACA recipients.