For DACA Teachers, Uncertainty Lingers On The Last Day To Renew
As the last renewal for DACA sets in, teachers in the program worry about their futures and the possibility of having to leave their students.
There are nearly 700,000 people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and Thursday is the final deadline for them to renew their DACA status, which the Trump Administration announced would be discontinued unless Congress steps in to save it.
With an application fee of $465, the program allows the recipients, often called DREAMers, to renew their temporary two-year work permits. But with no contingency plan, many are left with a feeling of uncertainty.
Another word for that is limbo. And that's how three teachers that NPR Ed spoke with described their feelings after the Trump Administration that the program, which protects young people who came to the country illegally, would end.
