Despite Protected Status, 261 DACA Recipients Have Been Arrested and 86 Deported
As someone who worked in those early days of the DACA program to ease fears and encourage youth to apply, it breaks my heart to see the trust they put into the process betrayed more than a decade later,” said Wendy Cervantes, a director at The Center for Law and Social Policy. “It’s simply wrong, like setting a trap for young people who have grown up here and have done everything possible to be able to remain in the country they call home.”
