Love in the time of DACA
LOS ANGELES - Maria Lopez spotted him at a bachata class. He checked off all her boxes. Superb dancer. Smart - he had an engineering degree. Tall, dark and handsome.
After a month of dating, he revealed he was in the country illegally. She too lacked legal status, though she had the relative protection of being in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Wordlessly, they pumped the brakes on their relationship.
Being without legal status under the umbrella of DACA has always been a risky proposition. Deportation always lurked in the background.
But now that the program is under threat from an unfriendly White House - and currently at the mercy
