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Dreamers head back to school facing fears about DACA's future - ABC News

posted onSeptember 5, 2017
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Article snippet: For Enrique Ramirez, the last week of August was supposed to mark a new beginning. He moved from his brick Quincy House dorm on Harvard University's campus into an apartment he shares with his sister not far from the University of Texas Law School, where he plans to study immigration law. He bought his books and attended orientation. And then Hurricane Harvey arrived. Ramirez and his family watched from his apartment living room in Austin as the streets of his hometown in Dickinson, Texas, overflowed with dirty brown water. "We were watching the Weather Channel, and we recognized my cousins and family getting rescued," he said. As he worried about whether his family's home would be washed away by the floods, another concern grew from news in Washington: Could he be deported? For students like Ramirez, so-called Dreamers, with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, who grew up in the United States, the beginning of this school year has been marked by concerns they could lose their protected status and ability to work. On Friday the White House said an announcement will be made on Tuesday about whether the administration will end DACA, the Obama-era immigration policy that lets young people brought to the United States illegally by their parents before 2012 apply for a renewable two-year permit, allowing them to come out of the shadows to obtain work permits, attend college and defer action on deportation. "It's been a very rough week f... Link to the full article to read more

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