Sixty-Four Percent of DACA Applicants Past High-School Age
FACT SHEET | MARCH 2017 | DOWNLOAD PDF
On June 15, 2012, then President Barak Obama rolled out a program called Deferred Action for Children of Aliens (DACA). The Obama administration marketed DACA as a way to keep high school valedictorians, gifted students, and other high achieving young people in the United States. However, the demographic data on DACA applicants belies those claims. Most applicants were adults at the time they enrolled in the DACA program.
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