On June 15, 2012, President Obama announced the policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to enable individuals brought to the US as children to obtain a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit (but no path to citizenship). The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), proposed for a process to grant residency and subsequently naturalized status to qualifying immigrants who en