More than 2,500 young undocumented "Dreamers" have applied for DACA in recent months, among them Phoenix university student Daniel Hernandez. Hernandez was blocked from applying for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program under the Trump administration, which tried to rescind the program. The DACA program grants temporary protection from deportation and work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as "Dreamers." Trump said the program was unlawful. But in December, a federal judge in Brooklyn ordered the government to fully restore the program, including accepting and processing new applications. The order by Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn followed the Supreme Court's June ruling that the Trump administration improperly tried to rescind the program, without considering whether the program was lawful.