OPINION: For immigrant ‘dreamers,’ an uncertain future
Allison Brady was thrilled last October when she received her second temporary employment authorization card, along with another two-year reprieve from possible deportation.
Her family brought her to the U.S. 20 years ago when she was just 10 from the Dominican Republic. She’s lived in New York City ever since. And like some 740,000 other “Dreamers,” she qualified for President Barack Obama’s controversial 2012 executive immigration order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
But less than a month after getting her DACA renewal, Brady, a math teacher with New York City public schools, was one of the hundreds of thousands of such Dreamers gripped with a troubling sense of uncertainty after the election of Donald Trump.