The Trump administration announced last week that it intended to wind down Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an executive order signed by former President Barack Obama in 2012. The DACA program won’t be shut down immediately; instead, the administration has given Congress six months to find a legislative solution.
Under DACA, approximately 800,000 people who entered the United States illegally as minors obtained a reprieve on deportation. Some 45 thousand applied and received permanent resident status. The beneficiaries of DACA are sometimes called Dreamers.
