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DACA
[dah-kuh]
noun
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: a program intended to allow undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as minors to legally remain in the country to study or work.
Word History and Origins
Origin of DACA1
Example Sentences
“DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a press secretary for the agency.
Its list includes immigrants who have received “withholding of removal” under the Convention Against Torture, immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status, and Dreamers protected by DACA.
Hernandez-Rodriguez, 34, was in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, or DACA, which grants work permits and deportation protections to certain immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
“DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
A case that challenges DACA’s legality is expected to reach the Supreme Court, where some legal experts predict the conservative majority may strike it down.
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When To Use
DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy, enacted by the Obama administration in 2012, that allows undocumented people, known as Dreamers, brought to the United States as children to defer deportation and live and work in the U.S. legally.With efforts by the Trump administration to end it being challenged in court, DACA has become a flashpoint for the immigration debate in the U.S.On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant, 5-to-4 ruling against President Trump's effort to terminate DACA in September 2017. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts found that, while a president has the authority to end DACA if they provide valid, proper reasons, the Trump administration's decision was "arbitrary and capricious."The ruling protects hundreds of thousands of Dreamers from deportation for now by blocking the Trump administration's immediate ending of the DACA program. Other implications of the ruling are that DACA is legal, but also that a president could end the program in the future, if done so in a reasoned way. Congress would still need to pass legislation to determine the permanent legal status of Dreamers.
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