Washington, D.C. – Over the course of 2025, the federal administration has taken unprecedented steps to chip away at the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, amidst a wider and violent pattern of mass raids targeting immigrant communities and allies nationwide with impunity.
Last year, the Home is Here campaign – co-chaired by United We Dream – released a tracker documenting reported cases of over 65 DACA recipients, the vast majority of whom with active status, and immigrant youth who were detained by immigration agents in 2025. In addition to this alarming rise in detentions, the Department of Justice stated it can reopen previously terminated or closed removal proceedings for DACA recipients and subject them to mandatory and indefinite detention.
Over the course of 2025, the administration also:
- Barred DACA recipients from accessing health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, affecting the approximately 11,000 DACA recipients who were enrolled in the ACA.
- Challenged and blocked access to higher education through attacks on in-state tuition to immigrant students, including DACA recipients, in five states.
- Rescinded access to commercial drivers’ licenses to certain immigrants, including DACA recipients.
- Coordinating with TSA to share travelers’ data with immigration enforcement agencies to target immigrant youth
United We Dream released the following statement:
“There is no overstating that we are living through the most dangerous moment in DACA’s 13-year history; a moment that demands decisive congressional action to protect our communities and ensure stability and safety for our country. If we continue down this path any further, violence and devastation will be the inevitable outcome. We urge Members of Congress, and especially our champions, to affirmatively stand against the administration’s mass delegalization efforts and its latest efforts to target DACA recipients and weaken the DACA program. Congress has a concrete, bipartisan solution on the table to provide long-overdue stability and permanent protections for immigrant youth, and they must act with urgency this moment requires to get it done.”
