A DACA Recipient Describes the Feeling of Watching Her Legal Status Expire [NewYorker.com]
In September, after Donald Trump cancelled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the popular Obama-era program that granted legal protections to undocumented immigrants who had been brought to the U.S. as children, he told the program’s seven hundred thousand recipients, who then faced the prospect of being deported, that they had “ nothing to worry about .” His decision didn’t end the program right away—it gave Congress six months, until March, to negotiate a policy solution. Until then,...