According to the CAP analysis of ACS microdata, while slightly more than one-third of DACA recipients are enrolled in school, those who are working are employed in a wide range of occupations. Rental payments are even more staggering: DACA recipients pay $2.3 billion in rent to their landlords each year.
Were a Trump administration to decide to try and deport DACA recipients, the cost would grow by some $69 billion to $76 billion, according to the right-leaning American Action Forum.Because DACA has not been successfully challenged in any courtâit is the DAPA program that faces a variety of court challenges that remain unresolvedâPresident Trump could extend the program while remaining fully faithful to his campaign promises. On the whole, the United States benefits from the social and economic contributions of DACA recipients. Other notable fields include management and business occupations, in which 28,000 DACA recipients are employed; education and training occupations, with 16,000 DACA recipients employed; and health care practitioner and support occupations, with 27,000 DACA recipients employed.The analysis calculates mortgage and rental payments for households in which a DACA recipient is the head of household or the spouse or unmarried partner of a head of household. Deporting DREAMers would constitute breaking a commitment to those who applied and paid a $465 feeâwhich covered every cent of the programâs expenses, meaning not a penny was borne by taxpayersâin exchange for temporary protection from deportation and the right to work legally in the United States.To achieve all of this President Trump needs to do⦠nothing. “This is a double-edged sword,” Gonzales says. To understand the Court’s decision, it is important to understand that the Supreme Court considers two aspects of DACA to be separate. They are teachers who educate our children. Monthly payment information is aggregated from the ACS microdata.As DACA recipients have grown up in the United States, they have graduated from school, embarked on careers, and started families of their own. More than one-third of DACA recipients, 37 percent, arrived before age 5. As a result, DREAMers are as American as anyone who is native-born. This is why Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at allowing people who are eligible or have applied for DACA to remain in the United States with permission to work and without fear of deportation. CAP’s analysis finds that the average DACA recipient arrived in the United States in 1999, when they were just 7 years old. After a long, divisive campaign, thatâs a deal all Americans should be able to get behind.The economic cost of ending DACA would be enormous, as we would lose the benefits of our investments in developing the nationâs future workforce. A good first step toward making that promise a reality would be to extend DACA, upholding the American Dream for tens of thousands of young people, and earning more than a half-trillion-dollar bonus for our economy over the next decade.Â
The Center for American Progress recently estimated these potential wasted economic benefits to be a staggering $433.4 billion in gross domestic product over the next decade.
Not only would this be heartless, but it would also jeopardize the many contributions that DACA recipients make to U.S. society and the national, state, and local economies every day.These individuals work in different sectors of the economy too. Many people just don’t understand why it’s a good thing to receive more immigrants in the U.S., but we have to help spread the word. Many DREAMers arrived in this nation as very small children. (see Methodology)DACA has had—and continues to have—wide-ranging positive impacts that go beyond the lives of DACA recipients and their families. As community members, DACA recipients make substantial rental and mortgage payments, much of which goes directly into their local economies.