“9 facts that explain DACA, the immigration program Trump is threatening to end”

The article discusses how many people are actually relying on DACA and analyzes how people have benefited from DACA .

Data sets in this article:

  • the average age of immigrants under DACA arrived in the US was 6-and-a-half years old.
  • Many DREAMers did not know they were unauthorized until they were teenagers
  • nearly 400,000 young immigrants did not meet educational requirements for DACA
  • Only 5% under DACA  have bachelor degrees
  • only 20 % enrolled in college annual earnings had increased 80 percent under DACA — from an average of $20,000 to an average of $36,000
  • 65% of people who were under DACA were able to buy their first car and 16% became home owners
  • 60 % of DACA recipients above the age of 25 said that with DACA they’d been able to find jobs that better suited the education and training they already had; 61 % said they’d been able to find jobs that suited the careers they wanted to have.
  • There are currently about 800k people under DACA and by April 2021 no one will have DACA and 100k will have expired protection.

This article analyzes the data collected from surveys using charts and graphs. Thus research is very quantitative.

Citation

Lind, Dara. “9 Things You Need to Know to Understand DACA and the DREAMers.” Vox, Vox, 31 Aug. 2017, www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/31/16226934/daca-trump-dreamers-immigration.