“I am grateful to the court for recognizing that what happened to me was wrong and for bringing me home,” said Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez. “But no one should have to go through this” DACA recipient Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez – the California mom who was wrongly...
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Mar 19, 2026
And they deserve permanent relief, now. “No daughter should have to live like this,” said the child of a recently-deported DACA recipient. “No family should be torn apart like this” A DACA recipient has blasted the Trump administration’s ongoing detention and deportation of Dreamers, unequivocally stating that the federal...
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DHS has admitted to kicking out nearly 90 DACA recipients and detaining 261 others despite long-standing protections shielding them from deportation The U.S. government made a promise to the hundreds of thousands of long-settled immigrants who’ve applied and been approved for the DACA program: if you follow the rules,...
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There’s power in standing up for each other The recent release of a number of unjustly detained immigrants shows there’s power in resistance and speaking out for our neighbors. In Texas, Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira and Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago recently won their release from ICE detention after being swept...
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More and more Dreamers are getting swept up in the federal government’s anti-immigrant agenda despite holding work permits and protection from deportation under the popular and successful DACA program. In southern California, a DACA recipient and rideshare driver who has called the U.S. his home for two decades, faces...
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After claiming that he’d even reach out to Democrats to “work something out” for Dreamers, Trump is now telling hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who grew up here to self-deport Sadly, no real surprise here. Donald Trump and his anti-immigrant purge crew have made it clear to DACA...
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Caroline Dias Goncalves, the University of Utah student who was abducted by Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agents following a routine traffic stop earlier this month, has finally been freed after two agonizing weeks in ICE custody. In remarks following her release, the Dream.US scholar described her 15 days in...
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DACA has been “a beacon of hope,” allowing young immigrants to “dream, live, and thrive without fear,” Dreamer Claudia Quiñonez said during a Washington, D.C. press event with members of Congress and allies marking the program’s 13th anniversary this week. Under the popular and successful program, hundreds of thousands...
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Jun 6, 2025
DACA and beneficiaries of the popular program are celebrating 13 years of successes Many Dreamers currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have delivered for America and themselves. These bright young people who are American in every way except full legal status have transitioned from...
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Dreamer Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who has lived in the U.S. since she was four, “should never have been arrested,” her attorney said. “She should never have been put in this situation.” While Georgia Dreamer Ximena Arias-Cristobal is now free from ICE detention, her nightmare is nowhere close to over. During...
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