Democrats push Homeland Security Department on DACA recipients

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The DACA program is meant to offer temporary protection from deportation but is not an immediate path to citizenship or a green card. Polls conducted over the last five years have shown most Americans support the creation of a legal pathway for DACA recipients. DHS’s call for DACA recipients to self-deport is another example of a mixed message in the administration’s immigration enforcement policy when it comes to DACA. After winning the election, Trump said he wanted DACA recipients to stay . There are roughly 500,000 DACA recipients in the U.S., as of the second quarter of this year, from more than 150 countries.