Deferred Enforced Departure

What Deferred Enforced Departure is. Deferred Enforced Departure, commonly shortened to DED, is a decision by the President not to enforce the removal of nationals of a particular foreign state for a stated period. It works by suspending enforcement rather than by conferring anything on the people it protects. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services describes it in those terms: it is not a specific immigration status, but those covered by it are not subject to removal during the period the President designates.