With the deadline for eligible Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to get their renewal paperwork in to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) now just hours away, one of the states that stands to get hurt the most by Donald Trump ending the program is Texas, which is home to 120,000 of the nation’s 800,000 DACA recipients.
As the Dallas Morning News noted, Texas could lose up to $6.1 billion if DACA recipients are no longer able to work legally. Immigrant youth make tax contributions and that’s important to acknowledge, but it’s about more than just money—it’s about real lives. The Texas Tribune highlights the stories of five undocumented immigrant youth who stand to have their lives upended if Congress does not act on the bipartisan DREAM Act, including 18-year-old Uzair:
”A lot of people say we need to go back to our country. But this is really the only country we know. I don’t remember anything about Pakistan. My parents immigrated here with me when I was five months old. So I’ve lived in Houston, Texas, for practically my whole life. My family has never had the opportunity to travel or go on vacation or anything like that, just because of that lingering fear that we had.
“You know, in one second we could be enjoying life,” he says, “and the next second we could be deported or our family could be separated.”
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