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UPDATE: The End of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals Program: Some Immediate
Takeaways
Hillel R. Smith
Legislative Attorney
January 16, 2018
UPDATE: On January 9, 2018, following publication of this Sidebar, the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California, in considering a lawsuit challenging the planned rescission of the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as unconstitutional and a violation of agency
rulemaking procedures, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction limiting the DACA phase-out to
aliens who have not yet enrolled in DACA. For a more detailed discussion of the district court's decision
and its potential impact, see CRS Legal Sidebar LSB]0057, District Court Enjoins DACA Phase-Out:
Explanation and Takeaways.
The original post from September 8, 2017, is below.
On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program would be phased out over a six-month period. Established in 2012 under the
Obama Administration, DACA permits qualifying unlawfully present aliens who came to the United
States as children to obtain a form of relief known as deferred action and, typically, work authorization
for a renewable two-year period. While DACA provides for the deferral of any immigration enforcement
action (e.g., removal) against a relief recipient, it does not confer any legal immigration status upon relief
recipients.
In 2015, a group of states and government officials obtained a preliminary injunction preventing
implementation of a 2014 expansion of DACA and a related Deferred Action for Parents of Americans
and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) initiative. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit affirmed the injunction and an equally divided Supreme Court upheld this decision without
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