How many other countries have programs similar to DACA?

Well, many were. But that's not required to qualify as a protected Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient under the various plans, including Obama's. You just have to have entered the country illegally before age 16. You could have decided to sneak in against your parents' wishes. You're still a “Dreamer!”. read more

It’s difficult to find any country that allows children or people of any age who have entered illegally that then grant legal residency and subsequent citizenship. read more

Since its implementation in June 2012, over 580,000 immigrants from 195 different countries have applied to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which offers work authorization and temporary protection from deportation to unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. read more

Prime examples are the Palestinians that populate the "refugee" camps of Jordan (decades later and they're not offered any nod toward legalization), and the recently in the news Rohingyas of Myanmar who are ethnically Bangladeshi but have been trapped in the former Burma only now to find their way into the headlines. read more