# Biden administration preserves DACA amid continuing federal litigation

Date: 2021

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a United States immigration policy that allows some individuals who, on June 15, 2012, were physically present in the United States with no lawful immigration status after having entered the country as children at least five years earlier, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for an employment authorization document. By 2026, there were approximately 500,000 people with DACA status.

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