San Antonio-area DACA recipients are apprehensive as a Texas judge who ruled the program illegal is once again considering its legality.
Araceli Sanchez, son Giovanni Castillo, 17, husband Giovanni Castillo, and daughter Isabella Castillo, 13, spend time together in the kitchen.Since leaving Mexico as teenagers, Giovanni Castillo and his wife Araceli Sanchez have created a life in the U.S. with protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.legality of the program
“People sometimes say, why don’t you just become ‘legal?’ It’s not that easy. It’s not just, let me apply and they’ll give it [citizenship] to me,” Castillo said. “DACA is the only thing we have. There’s no other way. At least we can work and drive.” “We make plans, but not knowing what can happen. Knowing that as soon as they tell us we have to leave, we’ll leave everything,” Sanchez said. “But we can’t just do nothing.”
Even if DACA is upheld, Castillo and Sanchez’s DACA status expires in less than two years. They can apply to renew, but if the program is ruled illegal, them and thousands of other DACA recipients will not have a protective status and will be at risk of deportation. San Antonio DACA recipients came to the U.S. as children, and they know no other life except for the one they have here, said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro .
Araceli Sanchez, a DACA recipient who was brought to the United States as a teenager, feeds her chickens.It took nearly a decade after they came to the U.S. for Castillo and Sanchez to receive DACA status. During that time, they had to save money for years to purchase property cash, including homes and cars, he said.
“We would sell the house, take what we can to Mexico and —” Castillo said; ” — start over,” Sanchez said.Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report
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