DACA: deferred action for people brought to the United States as children
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is a policy, not a law. It offers people who arrived in the United States before their 16th birthday, have lived here continuously since June 15, 2007, were under 31 on June 15, 2012, and are in school or graduated, a renewable 2-year grant of deferred action and a work permit. Roughly half a million people hold it. Courts have limited it: since 2021 initial applications have been barred by court order while renewals continue, and the program's future depends on litigation and on Congress. DACA confers no status and no path to permanence, though recipients who travel on advance parole may open other doors.
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