Fourteen years ago this month, former president Barack Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a relief for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, who are often referred to as Dreamers. The new policy allowed them to legally work in the country and protected them from deportation.
And with new career options ahead of them, many young people with DACA status pursued higher education, hoping for a pathway to permanent citizenship in the future.
But no new students have been able to obtain DACA status since 2021 amid a lengthy legal battle over the program. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice kept the program alive, though DACA has continued to face legal challenges.
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