New Report: New Administration Policy Will Reduce Number of DACA Recipients Through Higher Cost, Delays, and Denials

On September 29, 2020, the Presidents’ Alliance and TheDream.US released a new report, Discouraging and Denying Renewals: An Assessment on the Impact of the July 2020 DHS Memorandum on DACA, which surveyed close to 1,800 DACA recipients to assess the impact of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s new DACA policies. You can read the full report here, our press release here, and supplemental narratives here. Key takeaways from the report include:

• The majority of survey respondents (62 percent) said that the new policies would constitute a “substantial barrier” to renewal. If this percentage holds steady for the general population, nearly 400,000 DACA recipients would face significant barriers to renewal.
• Upwards of 36 percent of DACA holders may have their renewal applications rejected for filing “too early” under the new policy. 
• Eighty-two percent of respondents said that the one year grant period would constitute a barrier to higher education 
• Eighty-seven percent of respondents said that the one year grant period would constitute a barrier to employment and career 
• Fifty-six percent worried that their DACA status would lapse due to the new restrictions and they would be fired.

Download the report here. Download the supplemental narratives here.