DACA at Risk How Project 2025, Court Battles, and a Two‑Year Clock Threaten a Generation of Dreamers

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges faced by DACA recipients and the efforts to maintain their status amidst legal and political threats.

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: She grew up here. She’s raising U.S.-citizen children. And the country she has spent her entire life in still considers her provisional — a guest who can be asked to leave. This episode is about the roughly 800,000 people living that reality, and the coordinated effort to keep them permanently temporary. Rising fees, closed doors, court rulings that strip work permits while leaving deportation protection in place, and a 900-page blueprint that treats DACA...

People in this episode

Host: Bella Goode

Topics covered

• DACA
• immigration
• court battles
• Dreamers
• temporary status
• deportation protection

Keywords

• DACA
• Dreamers
• Project 2025
• court battles
• immigration policy
• deportation
• work permits

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DACA, Project 2025, U.S.

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