Yesterday, Persyn Law & Policy filed an amicus brief on behalf of 17 child advocacy and pediatric organizations in defense of DACA. Nearly 12 years after the policy began, there are now hundreds of thousands of children of DACA recipients. The oldest of them are around ten. Strip away the politics and rhetoric and you have a very important question: what happens to them if DACA is terminated?
This brief summarizes what we know about the toxic stress impacts of deportation fear on these children and also characterizes the food, economic, housing, and educational instability these children will experience if their parents lose work authorization. And we touch on the unthinkable: deportation of former DACA recipients and the potential fate of their children.
**DACA = Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It is a policy, not an immigration status, that grants protection from deportation and work authorization (and certain other benefits) in two-year increments to people brought here as children. It was supposed to be a stopgap so Congress could act. Nearly 12 years later, we are still waiting for the DREAM Act to do right by these Americans in all but name.
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