Ten years later, DACA remains in a legal limbo and its future uncertain after a seesaw of court rulings. At stake are the lives of more than 101,000 Texas residents who have DACA status, their families and their employers. | via keranews
Jemima Martinez was 13 years old when her mom moved their family to Fort Worth. The year was 2000 and Martinez’s mom had grown increasingly worried about drug cartel-related violence in the Mexican border city of Reynosa.
Growing up though, her immigration status wasn’t something Martinez really worried about — that is until she started applying to colleges. Martinez learned she wasn’t eligible for federal financial aid, so she enrolled in a community college before transferring to the University of Texas at Arlington.
Nina Perales, vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, said everyone who has DACA status or is eligible to apply, is worried. “From how I see it, it’s like we are creating revenue for this country and it’s many of us,” Martinez said. “If you’re a DACA recipient, you have to be a law-abiding citizen and the reason why we want a work permit is to be able to create profit — to be able to rent a house or buy a house, a car, travel, just do all the things that create revenue.”
“A lot of people don’t know that if you are a DACA recipient, there’s no pathway for citizenship,” she said. “So how can you be opposed to something that you don’t even know what it entails.”South of downtown, Sandra Avalos, 33, works on a paper for her public leadership graduate class at the University of North Texas Dallas campus.
But [there] was never really a conversation about what it meant to be undocumented. We just kind of knew it,” she said. “The only conversation was like, ‘Don’t draw attention to yourself because that will [draw] attention to us.’”
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