A month ago, President Donald Trump declared he is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program, instituted by President Barack Obama in 2012 after Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
The DACA program allowed some individuals who came to the U.S. illegally as minors to stay in the country for two years, and apply for a work permit. To be eligible, applicants had to have arrived in the United States before age 16 and have lived here since June 15, 2007. They could not have been older than 30 when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enacted the policy in 2012.
