On June 15, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will hit its 10th anniversary. What has the track record been for this program, which has granted protection from deportation and work authorization to hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children and have met educational and other requirements to apply?
In our new U.S. Policy Beat article, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Senior Fellow Muzaffar Chishti and Senior Policy Analyst Julia Gelatt review the evidence on DACA’s impacts for Dreamers, their families, and the broader society. They also look at the growing reliance on similar limited legal statuses to help segments of the unauthorized immigrant population, and examine the legal challenges DACA has and is continuing to face.
Read the article in the Migration Information Source: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/daca-10th-anniversary.
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