Biden Preserves DACA but Recipients Urge for a More Permanent Solution Courtesy of Loyola University ChicagoIn 2013, Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school to accept DACA recipients. Current DACA students, at Stritch and elsewhere, are still worried about what the future of DACA looks like. Published February 17, 2021 7:12 a.m. CT When President Joe Biden issued a memo ordering the preservation and fortification of a 2012 Obama-era policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, many recipients let out a sigh of relief. Since 2017, they had been “living in limbo” as former President Trump tried to rescind the program.