What Deferred Action Has Achieved and What May Be at Risk

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DACA recipeint Luis Quiroz is a San Francisco State student who was born in Guerrero, Mexico, but raised in San Diego from the time he was 6 months old. Photo by Adelyna Tirado/El Tecolote

El Tecolote

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is one of the Obama era’s most successful programs.  A recent survey of more than 3,000 DACA recipients conducted by UC San Diego, United We Dream, the National Immigration Law Center and the Center for American Progress shows how much of an effect DACA has had.

Of those who responded, 94 percent have pursued higher education, an option denied to them before DACA, and more than 90 percent are now employed.

Read the story at El Tecolote. 

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