‘We’re going back:’ Undocumented youth face more barriers to reach their potential with DACA in limbo
The U.S. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy, enacted in 2012, calls for temporary delays in deportation for some undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. It allows migrant youth to legally drive, travel, study and work in the U.S. But some undocumented youths have continued to encounter barriers DACA was intended to prevent. Dulce Matuz, who as an undocumented immigrant earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Fulton Schools in 2009, says such students are still facing the same challenges today as they have in the past. Matuz’s advocacy for undocumented students was a prominent theme of a popular documentary film.