["Social Science Quarterly, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\n\nObjective\nThis study questions whether the Deferred Actionfor Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has promoted the educational and career advancement in a subgroup of Mexican youth who crossed illegally by their parents at a young age, or has not promoted such advancement.\n\n\nMethods\nI draw upon recent research on this topic. From the American Community Survey, I drill down to a cohort of young Mexicans who qualified for DACA in 2012, and follow it to 2016.\n\n\nResults\nThis cohort (DACAs) entered the workforce and curtailed college attendance between 2012 and 2016 but also completed college, were employed professionally, and increased their income markedly, relative to a cohort of “Dreamers” (an analogous group that did not qualify for DACA).\n\n\nConclusion\nThe integration of DACAs, so beneficial to the country, will be curtailed if DACA is definitively terminated by the disallowal of renewals; DACAs would return to an underclass status resembling that of the Dreamers.\n\n"]