‘Dreamers’ are losing their jobs waiting for renewals under Trump: ‘It feels like a personal attack’

The process to renew Daca immigration status used to take a few weeks – now it drags on for months It’s been six months since Claudia first applied to renew her US immigration status – a process that, for the last 14 years, would only take a few weeks. But now, the prolonged delay has put her life on hold. Claudia, who moved to the US when she was four, has maintained legal status as a “Dreamer” with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which was created in 2012 to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation. Continue reading...

Michael Sainato · Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:00 AM
US news | The Guardian

‘Dreamers’ are losing their jobs waiting for renewals under Trump: ‘It feels like a personal attack’

The process to renew Daca immigration status used to take a few weeks – now it drags on for months

It’s been six months since Claudia first applied to renew her US immigration status – a process that, for the last 14 years, would only take a few weeks.

But now, the prolonged delay has put her life on hold. Claudia, who moved to the US when she was four, has maintained legal status as a “Dreamer” with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which was created in 2012 to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation.

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