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Mass. DACA Recipient On The Uncertain Future Of The Program

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Chris Citorik
Tiziana Dearing

July 02, 2019

Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), demonstrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington in 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Estefany Pineda is a Massachusetts resident, UMass student, and currently enrolled in DACA. She spoke with WBUR under a pseudonym in 2017, when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration would be ending the DACA program. She has since fully declared her identity in public and was Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's guest at the State of the Union in Washington.

This segment aired on July 2, 2019.