Today is the tenth anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy originally established by President Obama to protect children who were brought into the United States illegally. DACA allows such migrants (often referred to as "dreamers," after the Dream Act, which has so far failed to pass Congress) to stay and work in the U.S. as long as they arrived in the country when they were 15 years old or younger, were 30 or younger when the program began in 2012, have not been convicted of any crimes as of the time they apply for the program, and have either graduated from a U.S. high school, are currently enrolled in school, or have served in the armed forces. All told, the policy protects some 800,000 people from deportation.
