Yet in the nearly three years since President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it would rescind DACA, Arellano has lived in fear of being uprooted from her life in America and forced to return to Mexico. She and her husband — both Mexican DACA recipients who are from JaliscoandMorelos, respectively — fell into each other’s arms in bed, weeping in joy. (There are an estimated 29,000 DACA recipients working in health care.) “When we found out Trump wanted to end [DACA], it was like a slap in the face. “Today we celebrate and tomorrow we fight.”If Congress or the White House do try to push for legislation that helps Dreamers, DACA recipients and activists argue it should not include measures that would hurt other undocumented immigrants.

Source: Huffington Post June 18, 2020 22:07 UTC