With another DACA court ruling looming, Texas recipients who are now adults worry about their jobs and futures

Itzayana Mondragon sits with her son, Dylan, at her home in Austin. Mondragon is a DACA recipient who worries about the unclear future of the program and her immigration status. She’s been in the U.S. since she was less than a year old and fears the idea of going back to Mexico. (Credit: Sergio Flores for the Texas Tribune)

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Itzayana Mondragon is a 23-year-old mother who works at a health clinic in Austin. Juan Carlos Cerda is a 30-year-old Yale grad who’s the state director of a Fort Worth-based advocacy group that lobbies for immigration reform. Cristhian Ordaz-Deanda is a 22-year-old who works as a mason and plans to finish his anthropology degree in San Marcos.