<P> Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy that allows some individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children to receive a renewable two - year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S. Unlike the proposed DREAM Act, DACA does not provide a path to citizenship for recipients . The policy, an executive branch memorandum, was announced by President Barack Obama on June 15, 2012 . U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting applications for the program on August 15, 2012 . </P> <P> In November 2014, Obama announced his intention to expand DACA to cover additional illegal aliens . Multiple states immediately sued to prevent the expansion which was ultimately blocked by an evenly divided Supreme Court . The United States Department of Homeland Security rescinded the expansion on June 16, 2017, while continuing to review the existence of the DACA program as a whole . Plans to phase out DACA were initiated by the Trump Administration on September 5, 2017, allowing Congress six months to pass the Dream Act, which would provide the path to citizenship for Dreamers under DACA that Congress had originally intended . The phase out has been put on hold by several courts . </P>

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