DACA: Who Are America's 'Dreamers'?
DACA: Who Are America's 'Dreamers'?

by Martin Armstrong (Statista)

All of America's 'Dreamers' are currently set to lose their right to stay by March 2020 unless there is some kind of turnaround in Washington. But what more do we know about these people?

After recently siding with Democrats on the issue of the debt ceiling extension, President Trump's bipartisan leanings seem to have now gone a step further. In what would be a U-turn on his September 5 decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), senior Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi claim that they have come to an agreement with the president to protect the so-called 'Dreamers'.

While the message coming out of the two camps is still not completely coherent, should Schumer and Pelosi's claims turn out to be accurate, Trump will "enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly". The Wednesday meeting supposedly also led to an agreement to "work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides" -- something contended by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

In the middle of all the politics, with their futures very much in the balance, are around 800,000 people. Brought into the country illegally when they were children, but since granted protection from deportation by the DACA program, all of America's 'Dreamers' are currently set to lose their right to stay by March 2020 unless there is some kind of turnaround in Washington.

But what more do we know about these people?

Our infographic brings together figures from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a 2017 study to shed some light on the demographic makeup of 'Dreamers'.

 

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