Dreamers face heightened level of anxiety after latest DACA decision
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TUCSON (KVOA) We re people, DACA recipient Reyna Montoya said. We re real people who have tried to live despite the uncertainty.
Montoya was 21 when she first applied for DACA or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program in 2012.
DACA was established by the Obama administration to provide temporary status for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by their parents.
But since the program s inception, its fate has seesawed in the courts. I m now 30, Montoya said. The only thing that has been consistent is the anxiety that we all face.
School is one of the many facets of daily life that was upended by the pandemic. For two CUNY students, who are immigrants, it taught them the value of what they had.
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WASHINGTON She’s called the president of Honduras a narco. The president of El Salvador, she said, was a “narcissistic dictator.”
Norma Torres, the lone member of Congress from Central America, is not afraid to speak her mind sometimes in surprising ways about immigration, corruption and the land of her birth. Her blunt talk has drawn so much anger from one Central American leader and his followers that she sleeps with a 9-millimeter pistol at her side.
Torres, a Democrat from Pomona, brings a unique perspective on what drives people to flee their home countries.
When she was a toddler and civil war was raging in Guatemala, her parents had used her as something of a human shield on perilous roads, holding her up to the windshield in hopes that seeing a tiny child would stop gunmen from firing into the family car.