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'You See In Their Eyes The Fear': DACA Students Face An Uncertain Future

About 800,000 young people had signed up for the DACA program. Now their education and work permits are at risk as President Trump hands the issue to Congress.
Activists marched to Trump Tower in New York in anticipation of President Donald Trump's elimination of the DACA program.

Erik Erazo says the end of the DACA program threatens all the things that the young people he works with have achieved.

"You see in their eyes the fear, that's the heart breaker," says Erazo, a high school counselor in Olathe, Kan.

In recent months, Erazo says, he's had to be honest

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