Thousands of DACA recipients have been allowed to stay in the United States, it was revealed on Monday, including 10 accused of murder.

Nearly 60,000 immigrants with arrest records under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security found 59,786 DACA recipients have been arrested while in the U.S. - about 8 percent of all who have been approved to remain in the U.S. under the program since it was created in 2012, Fox News reported.

The information was released as immigration issues are in the spotlight, mainly under President Donald Trump's policy of separating children from the adults who accompany them at illegal border crossings.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn

A Mission Police Dept. officer and a U.S. Border Patrol agent watch over a group of Central American asylum seekers before taking them into custody near McAllen, Texas.

Additionally, Congress is preparing to consider a pair of immigration bills put forward by Republicans that contain provisions aimed at helping immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.

Trump is scheduled to meet with House Republicans about the legislation Tuesday evening on Capitol Hill. He announced in September that he was ending the DACA program, but a series of federal court rulings has kept it running.

Both Republican bills allow immigrants facing the loss of their DACA protections to apply for legal status in the U.S.

Of those DACA recipients arrested, 53,792 were arrested before their most recent request for a 'grant of deferred action' was approved. Another 7,814 were arrested after their request was approved, Fox News reported.

Of those with a 'prior' arrest, more than 4,500 had been arrested on allegations of assault or battery; 830 arrests were related to sex crimes, and 95 arrests were made on warrants for kidnapping, human trafficking or false imprisonment. Ten such arrests were made in murder cases.

Additionally about 39 percent of those with a 'prior' arrest were accused of so-called 'driving-related' offenses, excluding driving under the influence. Another 22 percent were accused of 'immigration-related' crimes, while 12 percent were accused of theft and larceny.

More than 4,600 DACA recipients have been accused of 'drug-related' crimes.

A DHS spokesman said the department was releasing the arrest data in response to inquiries 'from Congress and others' for more detailed information on DACA recipients, including DACA criminal activities.

Under the terms of the program, immigrants are able to live and work in the U.S. for two years at a time before they must apply for a renewed grant of deferred action.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Field Office Director Jorge Field (L), 53, arrests an Iranian immigrant in San Clemente, California

DHS said convictions for felonies, 'significant misdemeanors,' or at least three 'non-significant misdemeanors' would 'generally' result in removal from the program.

The statistics do not reveal how many of the arrested immigrants were convicted of crimes, nor do they indicate whether charges were reduced or dropped.

They also do not reveal how many arrested DACA recipients were deported as the result of a conviction.

Francis Cissna, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director, told 'Fox & Friends' on Monday the agency wants to release as much data about DACA as possible for the public and lawmakers to be informed.

'I would like people to keep in mind . . . whatever they do, I would hope that we, at USCIS, would be able to turn down these people . . . if we think they're a public safety threat . . . if someone is a gang member . . . even if they don't have a conviction,' Cissna said.

'You could be arrested a whole lot of times and still get DACA,' Cissna said. 'The data we're putting out is only arrests, so presumably those people who had murder arrests, rape arrests -- that type of seriousness -- either got acquitted, charges were dropped or they plead something down, I would hope . . . there are a lot of crimes on the list we published that are misdemeanors – and they could've been convicted and still could've gotten DACA if they only had two of those misdemeanors.'