Thousands DACA Eligible In McLean's Congressional District: Map

MCLEAN, VA—With the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) set to be phased out, a new interactive map seeks to show what that impact ending the program will have on each area.

USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and Center for American Progress released the interactive map for each congressional district. In the 10th congressional district, which includes McLean, there are an estimated 1,600 DACA recipients. In all, 3,700 residents are DACA eligible. The district, represented by Republican Barbara Comstock, has the third most DACA recipients in the state.

The program protects about 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. It allows undocumented immigrants to receive renewable deferred action from deportation to work or attend school in the U.S. It was created by former President Obama's 2012 executive order after Congress failed to pass legislation.

Watch: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Blasts Trump On DACA

The Trump administration announced in September it would phase out DACA. Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized the policy as "executive amnesty" and "overreach," and he said that it was only implemented after Congress failed to pass a similar program through the usual legislative process.President Trump gave Congress the option of passing legislation to save the program within six months.

SEE ALSO: Virginia Dreamer: Ending DACA 'Would Be A Huge Blow'

DACA recipients with registrations expiring in the next six months had until Oct. 5 to apply for another two-year extension. But after DACA recipients' registrations expire outside the six-month window, they will not be able to reapply. This means, in part, that the hundreds of thousands of people who received work permits under the program will be forced to leave their jobs once their registrations expire.

Critics say ending DACA not only punishes children who involuntarily came to the U.S. but takes away from the tax base. Because the recipients have work permits, they are paying taxes undocumented immigrants would typically not pay. For the 10th congressional district alone, the researchers estimate $100,100,000 in Gross Domestic Product revenue will be lost out.

What is your opinion of DACA ending? Let us know in the comments.

See the full map here.

Image via Spencer Platt/Getty Images News/Getty Images