The next phase of President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions has launched with a fact awareness campaign by the U.S. Department of State and Homeland Security.

As part of the next stage of an "aggressive campaign," Homeland Security and the State Department wants to ensure people understand the criteria for filing requests for deferred action programs created by Obama's executive actions. The next phase, titled "Executive Action on Immigration: Know the Facts," is an awareness campaign on both national and international outreach efforts detailing eligibility requirements for the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the new Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA).

The campaign's target demographic are residents from Mexico and Central America.

With collaboration of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the campaign will inform undocumented immigrants about the DAPA program and heavily emphasize on dissuading families from encouraging further migration into the U.S.

According to a statement from the State Department and Homeland Security, the campaign will "dissuade family members living in the United States from supporting illegal migration of family members, including by emphasizing that persons currently in the United States who help family members illegally enter the country will be barred from DAPA."

In addition, the federal departments want to dissuade the Mexican and Central American public of future migration to the U.S. since the DACA and DAPA programs are not applicable to undocumented immigrants who have not been in the country before Jan. 1, 2010.

The media will play an important role in communicating the campaign. U.S. metropolitan areas with large populations of Latinos, such as Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington, D.C., will air radio and television public service announcements about the campaign. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico will also air broadcasts of the campaign.

The CBP also launched a website with Spanish dialogue catered for specific audiences in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Each country-specific website by the CBP includes audio and video broadcast about the immigration executive actions.

One advertisement set for El Salvador stated, originally in Spanish, "The recent executive action by United States President Barack Obama is temporary relief and conditioned for people without documents who have lived in the United States for at least five years and are parents of a citizen or U.S. permanent resident. If you currently live outside of the United States, you are not eligible. If you try to cross the border without documents, your deportation will be prioritized."

The public service announcement concludes that people should be aware of potential fabrications about the immigration executive action benefits.

The CBP and USCIS websites and call centers will be updated to provide information on the programs' eligibility. Homeland Security and the State Department also plan to launch a social media campaign.

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