Trump Administration Looks To Roll Back Some Benefits For DACA Recipients

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — for immigrants whose parents brought them illegally to the United States when they were children — offers participants protection from immigration enforcement and benefits such as work permits and the ability to buy health insurance. We discuss efforts by the Trump administration to roll back some of these protections and benefits.

This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, immigration policy correspondent Ximena Bustillo, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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1:07.1	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
1:09.0	I'm Deepa Shibaram.
1:09.8	I cover the White House.
1:10.7	I'm Hima Bustillo, and I cover immigration policy. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. And today on the show, we're talking about some of the changes that have happened to the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, better known as DACA. And, Heman, you've been doing a lot of reporting on this. But just start from the
1:28.4	beginning here. Remind us what DACA is when it was created and how this program is supposed to work.
1:33.8	So DACA is a program that was created in 2012 under the Obama administration. And its goal was to provide some sort of temporary relief or protection to particularly children
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