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| ⏰Good morning, readers of The Short List! I'm John Riley, and I'm here to bring you some of the best reads of the week from the USA TODAY newsroom. Some of the stories are real pearls🦪, so stick around! Ed edited |
DACA turns 10 |
| 🔵This week marked the 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Its beneficiaries, immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, are protected from deportation and given permission to legally work. |
| The program, introduced by President Obama in 2012, was conceived as a temporary relief until Congress passed more permanent solutions. That never happened, and today its 600,000 recipients cling to the tenuous policy as a portal to opportunity - while anxiously preparing for its possible demise. |
| The USA TODAY Network interviewed DACA recipients to better understand how the program has impacted their lives. |
| ►The need for more permanent status in the United States has taken on a life-or-death urgency for Erendira Mendez, 34, who came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 12. Diagnosed with stage 4 chronic kidney disease, Mendez requires a new kidney but was told she needs private insurance or a green card to get on the transplant list. |
| "You stand there in the hospital and wonder, 'What's going to happen with my life?'" she said. "I'm exhausted and tired. What I need is a decision ... I've paid my dues." |
| 🔵Meanwhile, many immigrants are preparing for the end of DACA. A panel of federal judges in New Orleans is expected to rule in the coming weeks whether to do away with the program, potentially erasing a decade's worth of protections for undocumented young people. |
| José Patiño, a DACA recipient from Arizona, said his anxiety over DACA's future prompted him to get a therapist. |
| "What the Republicans have said is that there is not going to be an urgency for immigration reform as long as DACA is alive," he said. "But if the program ends there is no guarantee that this will happen, and I could lose my home, my job and everything I've been building for the last 10 years." |
| There are plenty more great reads below.👇 See you next week! |
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