The Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative in June 2012. It protects deserving undocumented young adults and teenagers from deportation. The program also allows them to qualify for job permits, which improves their social and economic conditions. Around 1.7 million young immigrants applied for DACA…
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was a United States of America immigration program that allowed other citizens to enter the country as minors. It was a scheme that was implemented in June 2012, under Barack Obama’s presidency. Nonetheless, President Donald Trump’s administration revoked the program in September 2017. Repealing…
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DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is the American immigrant policy set up by President Obama and his administration in June 2012 in the United States (Wood, 2017). It also applies to the process of judicial relief from deportation. For people who are currently studying or have graduated, it is…
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President Trump announced on September 5 that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative would be closed down by his administration. The President directed the Obama-era mechanism to be closed, shielding underage illegal immigrants from potential removal (Shear and Davis para. 1). The administration had reviewed its program decisions…
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