‘Dreamers’ are losing their jobs waiting for renewals under Trump: ‘It feels like a personal attack’
Overview
The process to renew Daca immigration status used to take a few weeks – now it drags on for months
It’s been six months since Claudia first applied to renew her US immigration status – a process that, for the last 14 years, would only take a few weeks.
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But now, the prolonged delay has put her life on hold. Claudia, who moved to the US when she was four, has maintained legal status as a “Dreamer” with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which was created in 2012 to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation.
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.