Graciela Nuñez hasn’t been sleeping well since President Donald Trump announced on September 5 his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. President Obama established the program via executive order in 2012 to protect immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors, known as “Dreamers,” from deportation and grant them work permits.
As an aspiring law student and DACA recipient, Nuñez now feels like her future, along with those of nearly 18,000 undocumented Washingtonians, is uncertain. The federal government is no longer accepting new DACA applications.
