Stories behind DACA & the struggle for permanent sanctuary in US

Nearly 800,000 DACA recipients, who are often called 'dreamers' in reference to the DREAM Act, now face the possibility of deportation when their permits expire in six months if Congress does not act

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced that the Trump administration would terminate a program that grants two-year renewable work and study permits to immigrants who were brought to the country as children without papers.

In the days following the policy shift surrounding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, protests, walkouts, petitions, “resistbot campaigns” and calls for impeachment have flooded the internet and the streets of the US. Critics accuse the White House of being cruel, as many DACA recipients self-identify