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Future Of Deferred Action For Young Immigrants Is Unclear This Election Year

June 10, 2016 – This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Stan Wilson sits down with Cindy Nava, a UNM graduate student, and Eva Eitzen from the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center to discuss the federal DACA program.

DACA (Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) allows some people who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children to obtain legal residency. President Obama created the program by executive order and the future of the program is unclear as we enter the final months of his administration.