Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is a policy that gives work permits and protection from deportation to some undocumented people who immigrated to the U.S. as children. The policy has faced legal challenges ever since the Obama administration implemented it in June 2012, just a day after Jose Antonio Vargas’s Time magazine cover story on undocumented immigration.
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Term Timeline in Dear America
The timeline below shows where the term Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) appears in Dear America. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2, Chapter 18: Who Am I?
The day after Vargas’s cover story, President Obama announced the DACA program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which gave 850,000 young undocumented people some rights,...
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Part 3, Chapter 8: National Security Threat
...hosting a vigil to welcome these children to the U.S. While the right-wing media blamed DACA for the “crisis,” President Obama refused to give the children refugee status.
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...checkpoints all around the region. When Cristina Jiménez realized that Vargas didn’t have protection through DACA, she panicked and started helping him plan how to leave. Ryan Eller and Alida Garcia...
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