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DACA’s Future Uncertain as Delays Disrupt Lives, Raise Fears of Deportation

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4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Since it was created back in 2012, DACA has allowed unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the US during childhood to go to school and work without fear of deportation. Now, many recipients are reporting extra long delays for renewing their status, which is required every two years, leading some to lose their jobs, health insurance, and stability and causing many to worry that they will be deported. President Trump tried to shut the program down during his first term and is expected to try again during his second. We talk with DACA recipients, advocates and legal experts about the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken DACA. Guests: Leo Rodriguez, union organizer; Oakland resident; DACA recipient Sarah Souza, DACA recipient and immigrant rights and economic justice activist; serves on the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission; legislative aide for San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin Alex Padilla, U.S. Senator Bill Ong Hing, professor of law and migration studies, University of San Francisco; author of several books on immigration policy and race relations including "Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System; helps run the USF Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic Xochilt Cruz Lopez, Richmond resident; DACA recipient who experienced a long delay for her renewal Jupiter Peraza, San Francisco resident and DACA recipient Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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great. From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Ducca was created as a temporary solution to a moral dilemma.

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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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