Former President Barack Obama took to social media this weekend to mark the 13th anniversary of his administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He called his administration’s immigration policy, which offered temporary protection and work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived to the U.S. as kids, “an example …
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When Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012, granting deportation protections and work permits to eligible immigrants to the U.S., Dreamers who came to the country as children breathed a sigh of relief. But they felt under threat during Donald Trump‘s first administration, when …
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Delia Ramirez is a freshman member of Congress who represents a swath of central and west Chicago. Ramirez is also the wife of an undocumented immigrant. Her husband came to this country as a teenager, and is living under the protections of DACA — or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals …
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Xunami Muse and Geneva Karr are making history on Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The two queens — Muse, who’s Panamanian, and Karr, who’s Mexican — are the first two queens to compete on the show while living with DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “It’s a reality …
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