DACA recipient: My face shield, mask and hospital scrubs cannot protect me

For the last four months, I have been fighting two battles. One against a well-known threat to New York City and the world, Covid-19, and the other against a less visible threat to immigrants nationwide, the systematic attempts by the Trump administration to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the program that protects Dreamers, undocumented immigrants like me who came to the United States as children, from deportation.

For the last four months, I have been fighting two battles. One against a well-known threat to New York City and the world, Covid-19, and the other against a less visible threat to immigrants nationwide, the systematic attempts by the Trump administration to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the program that protects Dreamers, undocumented immigrants like me who came to the United States as children, from deportation.