The Uncertain Fate of America’s Dreamers
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Trump Administration’s crackdown on undocumented and documented immigrants hasn’t stopped — even for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Since Trump returned to the White House last year, his administration has made life harder and harder for the estimated half a million DACA recipients living in the US. The Trump Administration has said it’s deported nearly 100 DACA recipients — and that’s not including everyone who has been detained. To talk more about what Dreamers are having to endure under Trump, we spoke with Laura Barrón-López. She’s a White House reporter for MSNOW.
And in headlines, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly plans to ask Congress for $200 billion to fund the war with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference just to prove he’s still kickin’, and rapper Afroman is — legally — serving up Lemon Pound Cake.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 20th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is One Today. |
| 0:07.9 | The show that heard meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is abandoning the Metaverse after spending $80 billion on it over the last few years. |
| 0:15.6 | What is the Metaverse? I never found out, and I am not going to find out now. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you. Metaverse? I never found out, and I am not going to find out now. On today's show, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference |
| 0:34.6 | just to prove he's still kicking. And are you hungry? Rapper Afro-Man |
| 0:38.6 | is serving up some lemon pound cake. But let's start with immigration. Obviously, there's a lot |
| 0:44.2 | going on in the world right now. But in the middle of it all, the Trump administration crackdown |
| 0:48.2 | on undocumented and documented immigrants hasn't stopped. Even for Dreamers, recipients of |
| 0:53.8 | deferred action for childhood arrivals, or DACA. |
| 0:56.8 | The policy was enacted by an executive order from then-President Barack Obama to protect undocumented |
| 1:02.0 | immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation. |
| 1:06.1 | Here's President Obama describing who the policy could benefit back in 2012. |
| 1:10.3 | These are young people who study in our schools. |
| 1:13.6 | They play in our neighborhoods. |
| 1:15.6 | They're friends with our kids. |
| 1:18.6 | They pledge allegiance to our flag. |
| 1:21.6 | They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, |
| 1:25.6 | in every single way but one on paper. |
| 1:32.1 | They were brought to this country by their parents, sometimes even as infants, and often |
| 1:39.4 | have no idea that they're undocumented until they apply for a job, or a driver's license, or |
| 1:48.3 | a college scholarship. |
| 1:50.9 | Put yourself in their shoes. |
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