On the thirtieth anniversary of the 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision, in which the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional to withhold state funds from school districts educating undocumented immigrants, President Barack Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA deferred the deportation of low-risk individuals for two years upon certain conditions. It did not, however, provide a path to citizenship. DACA targeted young people who had immigrated as children. DACA was an alternative to the failed DREAM Act, which sought to grant immigrant students temporary legal status, putting them on a path to citizenship. DACA symbolized what Obama called “America’s patchwork heritage”—the idea that various ethnicities, religions, cultures, and races are what make the United States great and unique—and embodied the notion that young people should not be punished for trying to live the American dream in the only nation many of them had ever known.