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Article snippet: LOS ANGELES — Safir Wazed, a graduate student born in Bangladesh and raised in California, struggled to focus on his studies. Evelin Salgado, born in Mexico and raised in Tennessee, was ending plans to buy a house and wondering what would happen to her teaching job. And Basilisa Alonso did what thousands of other so-called Dreamers did on Tuesday: She marched in the streets to make her plight known. “I’m willing to take the risk for my family and for all the other DACA people out there,” Ms. Alonso said, referring to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that she was marching to save. Minutes later, a New York City police officer moved in and placed her hand behind her back with plastic restraints. She was among several dozen people arrested after they blocked an intersection near Trump Tower at various times on Tuesday. About 800,000 undocumented young adults like them had endured weeks of nail-biting tension over the fate of DACA, which for the last five years has enabled them to legally live and work in the United States. On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed days of speculation that the Trump administration would end DACA in six months, leaving Congress to come up with a legislative solution to replace it. The announcement, fulfilling a campaign pledge of President Trump, immediately threw into question the future of everyone who signed up under the program. “I have been blessed with all the opportunities that DACA broug... Link to the full article to read more