A Data Portrait of the 611,470 DACA Recipients Who Still Have no Path to Citizenship
DACA turns 10 years old on Wednesday, June 15 — an anniversary that was hardly a foregone conclusion given years of legal challenges. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) provides relief from deportation and allows immigrants who came to the country as children to go to school and to work, but little else.
Despite widespread public support for Dreamers, bipartisan bills from both Republicans and Democrats, and years of sustained activism, DACA recipients are in the same precarious legal state as they were a decade ago.
In this short data-focused post, I use USCIS’s resources on their Immigration and Citizenship Data page to paint a portrait of the more than 611,000 immigrants who still have DACA status as of December 2021. (Feel free to share images online with attribution.)
