The University of Southern California's student government has forked out $10,000 to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students to pay their renewal fees due within six months.  The idea is to protest President Trump's ending of DACA.  Ten thousand divided by the $500 renewal fee should cover 20 DACA renewals. One problem: In less than four weeks, the Trump administration is no longer taking such renewal applications.  Renewals take place two years after a DACA recipient has gotten that status, because DACA status is good for only two years under President Obama's executive order.  According to Campus Reform, the "emergency fund" is there to pay the $500 fee to ensure that the renewal applications are made by the Oct. 5 renewal deadline even if they are really due six months out.  One wonders if the government will even accept such applications made that far ahead of the actual time they are set for renewal....(Read Full Post)