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Here's What 2 Big College Systems Think Of The End Of DACA

About a quarter of a million DREAMers — immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children — are enrolled in college. But the program that has allowed them to go to school is ending.
Demonstrators on the campus of Metropolitan State University in Denver protest President Trump's decision to end the DACA program. / Tatiana Flowers / Shutterstock.com

This week, President Trump finally made good on his campaign promise to end DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This 2012 administrative program implemented by President Obama, has allowed about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country.

They're known as "DREAMers," after a

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