DACA recipients are rattled by the recent realization that the personal information they provided to the government when applying for protection is being shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"I was devastated," said Fernandez, who arrived illegally in the United States from Ecuador when she was 14 to join her parents, already living in the country."I began overthinking a lot of things. Like, how was I supposed to survive after I lost that status?" DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, grants temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.
While it is unclear how often ICE has directly accessed the databases or whether any information obtained was used to target any individuals -- or whether ICE plans to do so if DACA is terminated -- Fernandez said she believes it gives new urgency to the Supreme Court decision.
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