USA (MNN) – Thousands of people protected under DACA could be deported starting March of 2018. But what exactly is DACA?
DACA: What is it?
“DACA is Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals. And this is a program created under the Obama administration, by executive order, which permits children who were brought to the United States as minors by their parents, and were undocumented, to essentially have a waiver on any attempt to remove them from the United States,” InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s Greg Jao shares.
DACA recognizes that these children (perhaps now adults) had no choice in being brought to the United States. Instead, these kids were transplanted and assimilated to the American culture without their personal choice.
“This is their home, as far as they have ever known. The identification they have is with the citizens of this place,” Jao explains.
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