INTERVIEW – HANS VON SPAKOVSKY – Senior Legal Fellow. Heritage Foundation
TOPIC: Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay
- The program to protect undocumented migrants who came to the United States as children from deportation was introduced in 2012. The White House says it will announce a decision on the program Tuesday.
- To be eligible, an applicant must have arrived in the US before age 16 and lived there since June 15, 2007. They cannot have been older than 30 when the Department of Homeland Security enacted the policy in 2012.
- Under the DACA program, Dreamers can apply to defer deportation and legally reside in the US for two years. After that people can apply for renewal. By March 31, 240,700 people had applied for renewal in the 2017 fiscal year and 884,661 people have had their approval renewed over the life of the program.
