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9 facts that explain DACA, the immigration program Trump is threatening to end

Trump was pressured into making a decision about its future on September 5th, one day after Labor Day, because that is the day a group of Republican state officials were set to sue over its constitutionality. The DREAM Act was intended to benefit the children who crossed illegally into the US with their parents and prevented them from growing up in a country where they could never become legal residents or citizens because the new laws made it harder for illegal immigrants to become legal residents. 
The DREAM Act was stalled, but it would have countered the new citizenship laws and given those children a path to citizenship. However, DACA, created by Obama in 2012, offered DREAMers a temporary grant of protection from deportation and a permit to work legally in the US. The protections last two years, after which immigrants can apply to renew for them. To be eligible for DACA, a DREAMer must have been in the US before 2007, and have been 15 or younger when they arrived and younger than 31 when DACA was created in June 2012. They had to have a nearly spotless criminal record and be enrolled in high school or have a high school diploma or equivalent.
The original DREAM Act was a compromise on the immigration issue, because it did not grant citizenship to all 11 million illegal immigrants, but it did give them a path to citizenship.
Education is hard to obtain for DACA-qualifiers because unauthorized immigrants are likely to grow up in lower-income households and can’t get federal financial aid, including federal student loans, which dissuades them from pursuing their educational and career goals. This obstacle yields a “transition to illegality." Once teenagers find out about their unauthorized statuses, they adjust their expectations of what they can achieve in life to match their new reality of an illegal immigrant, and lose the motivation to succeed in school or pursue high-status careers.
With 25% of DACA recipients having a US born child, it is inhumane to separate families. The parents are illegal, but the children are US Citizens. Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to allow young unauthorized immigrants who meet certain criteria to apply for a commitment from the federal government for "deferred action" for two years. Successful applicants don't receive a legal status, but the do receive a work permit.
DACA has economically impacted the DACA-mented people by increasing annual earnings by 80 percent, from an average of $20,000 to an average of $36,000.
If Trump didn't act on DACA before September 5, a group of state attorneys general, led by Texas, threatened to sue to do it for him. If DACA ends, then those who were protected under DACA will lose their jobs, lose financial aid, and easily be deported, because DACA recipients gave extensive personal information to the government when they applied, putting them in a position to easily be tracked down, arrested, and placed in deportation proceedings once their DACA expires.

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