[20190115]LSB10244_DACA接受者是否有资格获得联邦就业？.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Are DACA Recipients Eligible for Federal Employment? January 15, 2019 The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) prohibits employers, including federal agencies, from knowingly hiring non-U.S. nationals (aliens) who are not authorized to work in the United States. By statute, certain aliens are generally authorized to work in the United States, and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), by regulation, may enumerate additional categories of aliens who may obtain permission to work. Using this power, DHS has generally permitted aliens who obtain relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to seek employment in the United States. Aliens who qualify for DACA reliefnamely, certain aliens who came to the United States as children, lack lawful immigration status, and have not engaged in activities that render them ineligible for reliefmay be permitted to remain in the United States and receive work authorization for renewable two-year periods. (In 2017, the Trump Administration announced that it would rescind DACA; but as detailed in this Sidebar,