US to reject new ‘Dreamer’ requests for immigration protection

The US will accept no new applications for protection for “Dreamers,” young migrants who arrived illegally in the US as minors, a senior official said Tuesday. However those who already have a permit under the program may renew it for a year, the official told reporters under condition of anonymity. In 2017 President Donald Trump tried to cancel the program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protected so-called Dreamers from…