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Despite a Trump administration announcement in 2017 that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program had come to an end, new data shows that more than 134,000 people newly joined the program or had their status in it renewed this year. That’s about 60 percent of the number of new or renewed applications that were approved during that same time period last year.

Since 2012, DACA has provided a work permit and protection from deportation for certain people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But in September of 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would end the program. By January, an injunction had required that the administration keep renewing the status of those already in the program. In April, a federal judge told the government it had to continue accepting new applications.

From January through the end of June, more than 16,600 new people were accepted into the program, according to data released last week to a federal court by the Department of Homeland Security. Another 117,400 renewed their status for another two years.

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