DACA’s Future Uncertain as Delays Disrupt Lives, Raise Fears of Deportation
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:03.1 | great. From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Ducca was created as a temporary solution to a moral dilemma. |
| 1:14.6 | Imagine a child brought to the U.S. at two or five or seven years old. They've grown up their entire lives in the U.S. |
| 1:21.3 | In the early 2010s, there were hundreds of thousands of people who found themselves in this situation. |
| 1:26.8 | To deport them to their |
| 1:27.8 | parents' country of origin seemed cruel, but there wasn't a path for them to regularize their status. |
| 1:33.3 | So the DACA program was born, deferred action for childhood arrivals. If people registered and kept |
| 1:39.2 | updating their status every two years, DACA recipients could go to school and work without fear |
| 1:43.7 | of deportation. |
| 1:45.1 | Of course, there was always risk. You were outing yourselves to the authorities in exchange for the |
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