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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

‘Dreamers’ are losing their jobs waiting for renewals under Trump: ‘It feels like a personal attack’

a man seated on couch looking to right
A Dreamer, whose renewal was so delayed that he lost his job, sits in his home on 4 March. Photograph: Chicago Tribune/TNS

It’s been six months since Claudia first applied to renew her US immigration status – a process that, for the last 14 years, would only take a few weeks.

But now, the prolonged delay has put her life on hold. Claudia, who moved to the US when she was four, has maintained legal status as a “Dreamer” with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which was created in 2012 to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation.

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