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In 2017, DACA suspended deportation of over 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. DACA allows those migrants, popularly known as “Dreamers,” to stay in the U.S. as long as they arrived here when they were 15 years old or younger, were 30 or younger when the program began in 2012, have not been convicted of any crimes as of the time they applied for the program, and have either graduated from a U.S. high school, are currently enrolled in school, or have served in the armed forces.
The effort to end DACA is being mounted despite the fact that DACA works and has improved the lives of its recipients and their families. Some background on DACA recipients:
- 95% are currently working or in school
- 48% got a job with better working conditions
- 63% got a better paying job
- 90% got a driver’s license or state ID
- 54% bought their first car
- 12% bought their first home
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