Daca

Ten years ago, the Obama administration announced the DACA program to protect certain young immigrants in the U.S. from being deported. Two Dreamers reflect on the years since.

Oregon and Washington have joined a coalition of other states to sue over the Trump administration’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.  

Being undocumented sometimes means spending a lot of time trying to convince people why you deserve to stay in the United States. 

Nearly two weeks since immigration officials arrested Emmaneul Ayala Frutos, his family and immigration activists are demanding his release from a detention facility in Tacoma, Washington.

The sister of a 21-year-old Portland man taken to immigration detention while he was still recovering from a car accident has grave concerns about his mental and physical well being.

DACA allows people who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation.

DACA allows undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children to live without fear of deportation. Its disappearance would affect around 750,000 people, including PSU student Liliana Luna.

Un grupo de estudiantes se reunieron en el campus Rock Creek del colegio comunitario PCC en un evento denominado “Salir de las sombras” donde anunciaron públicamente que son indocumentados. 

A study from the Migration Policy Institute finds 82 percent of eligible immigrants in Oregon signed up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Nationally, it's 64 percent.