In 2012, the Obama administration established a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). It allows undocumented young adults who came to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation, work legally in this country, further their education and gives them access to health insurance and driver’s licenses. Nearly 800,000 people have obtained protection from deportation under DACA.

 In 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would end the DACA program.