Source: Laura Brache, WUNC, 12/2/20


Kiara Alvarenga’s parents brought her to the U.S. from Honduras when she was a little girl because they were looking for a better future for their family. Today, Alvarenga is 27 years old and one of North Carolina’s 24,000 recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA is one of the immigration policies that President Donald Trump has tried to alter through executive order in the past four years. The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute finds the Trump administration has implemented more than 400 executive orders on immigration...

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