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The NAM filed an amicus brief to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) against efforts to end the program and remove 800,000 individuals from the American workforce. Established by the Obama administration in 2012, DACA allows undocumented immigrants who had been brought to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation and permission to work in the United States. In 2017, the Trump administration announced plans to terminate DACA. In January of 2018, a federal judge in California blocked that termination and the 9th Circuit affirmed. The government petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review, which the court granted for its October 2019 term. This issue has a significant impact to NAM members, many of whom face workforce challenges that would be made far worse if 800,000 individuals suddenly lose their work authorization. The NAM joined a multi-industry and multi-employer amicus brief to highlight valuable the contributions that individuals with DACA status provide to manufacturers and to the entire U.S. economy and society. On June 18, 2020, the Court agreed, holding that the Administration's decision to rescind DACA was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act and that the program would continue.