On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was created by the Obama Administration in 2012 through an Executive Order. Through DACA, nearly 800,000 undocumented individuals have been granted temporary work authorization and deferred action (which offered some protection from deportation). DACA recipients are immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in 2007 or earlier as children under the age of 16, who had no legal immigration status when the DACA program started in 2012.
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