DACA Renewals in Crisis: Dreamers in Limbo

0:00Dreamers under DACA are hitting major roadblocks with renewals. For over a decade, folks like Milani Candia renewed every two years to stay, work, and live without deportation fear. But now, massive delays from U.S. from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services mean hundreds of thousands are missing deadlines, even when applying up to 150 days early. Way times have ballooned to five times longer than before, the worst since technical glitches back in 2016. Officials blame stricter vetting under the current administration, and no exact numbers on lap's cases, but advocates say it's widespread. Meanwhile, over 250 DACA recipients got arrested last year, with dozens deported, mostly tied to criminal records. These delays hit hard on daily lives. Take single mom Elsa Sanchez, waiting over five months for her renewal, her health care job put her on leave, forcing her to scrape by and pinch every. Penny.

1:00Special Ed teacher Milani calls constant fear her new normal, amplified now without work papers or protection. Lawmakers are pushing back with letters to agencies, questioning if laps for renewals leads straight to ice rates. A recent immigration board ruling says DACA alone won't block deportation anymore. Plus, processing pauses for folks from, quote, high-risk countries, could snag 3,000 to 4,000 more. All this leads, dreamers in limbo, jobs banishing, family stressing, as legal fights loom toward the Supreme Court again. The program's future hangs by a thread, testing resilience for those who built lives here since childhood. This has been Canada News Today, powered by AI.