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Anyone who arrived in the United States before the age of 18.

Federal immigration program created in 2012 during the Obama Administration; DACA provides eligible undocumented immigrants with:

• Temporary protection from deportation
• Access to work authorization
• In some cases, permission to travel abroad

Allows individuals from certain countries to remain in the United States if it is unsafe for them to return to their home country due to:

• Ongoing armed conflict (such as civil war)
• An environmental disaster (such as an earthquake or hurricane)
• Other extraordinary and temporary conditions

Refers to anyone residing in any given country without legal documentation whether they entered the country without inspection and those who entered with legal authorization and overstayed. 

Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution, based on the person’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, war, or violence.

Asylum is a protection grantable to foreign nationals already in the United States or arriving at the border who meet the international law definition of a “refugee.” The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define a refugee as a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her home country, and cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”