according to the u.s citizenship and immigration services on june 15 2012 the secretary of homeland security announced that certain people who came to the united states as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years subject to removal and they are subject to renewal they are also eligible for work authorization deferred action is the use of prosecutorial discretion to defer removal action against an individual for a certain period of time deferred action does not provide lawful status this is the u.s citizenship and immigration services announcement on their website deferred action of childhood arrivals of course is was not implemented by president obama because of his benevolence rather it took over a decade organizing by youth to have congress even listen to their struggle and so known as the dream act this is an acronym the dream act is an acronym for development relief and education for alien miners it was a legislative proposal for a multi-phase process for qualifying undocumented minors in the united states granting conditional residency and upon meeting further qualifications permanent residency now the first the bill was first introduced in the senate on august 1st 2001 by united states senators dick durbin and oren hatch and has since been reintroduced several times but has failed to pass there is a new dream act that's on the tables today but resistance efforts by the dreamers themselves finally got the obama administration to do something about their unique status and it wasn't easy they had to sit in in his offices especially during the last political campaign presidential campaign the deferred action for childhood arrivals known as daca we understand what daca and the controversy over daca is why it's so important but daca allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors and had either entered or remained in the country illegally to re receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action for deportation and it opened up them to be eligible for a work permit and as of 2017 approximately 800 000 individuals they are referred to as dreamers after the dream act bill they were enrolled in this program and it made them vulnerable because they had to put in their place of residence their in order to get a social security card they are vulnerable because the federal government has knows their whereabouts they made themselves vulnerable for this policy the policy was established by the obama administration not because obama cared about mexicans because he didn't but obama always catered to the republican right but the obama administration is going to be forced by these dreamers to do something about their condition and so uh the policy of daca was established by obama in june 2012 and it's going to be resented by the trump administration in september of this last uh uh this last month of september let's listen to an interview last may with a daca organizer we turn now to 21 year old karime anduhar who came to the united states from the dominican republic with her family at the age of four she's in her third year studying chemical engineering at rutgers university where she's been an outspoken advocate for undocumented students and is the president of undocu rutgers and the recipient of daca deferred action for childhood arrivals under president obama she was waiting for renewal of her status when she received a letter from federal immigration customs enforcement or ice ordering her to report for a check-in on tuesday morning immigrant rights advocates say and may now face deportation welcome to democracy now tell us about your situation uh when you received this notice to report so i received the notice about um seven to eight weeks ago and the notice said that i had to report for an interview with a deportation officer at the federal ice building in newark uh and uh you've been very active in in the uh at rutgers university among the undocumented students talk about your work there um so uh my advocacy first started by starting rutgers first student organization for undocumented students i started the organization with the objective of providing resources as well as support to undocumented students to improve the graduation rates and as well as retention rates for documented students because they're currently very low for higher education and what is your fear of deportation have you seen other students either at rutgers or students that you know who who have were initially granted daca who then have subsequently been deported yes there was a national case a couple of weeks ago of a daca recipient who was actually either out to lunch or out to dinner with his girlfriend and then ice officials started asking him questions that very same late day he was later deported to mexico so that's a direct violation of the regulation set forth by daca because raqqa is supposed to be deportation protection for early childhood arrivals uh and tell us a little bit about your story you came from the dominican republic where you when you were four years old and and uh you lived and studied where new jersey all of your life yes and tell us a little bit about what it's been like being here undocumented for so many years um well first and foremost i consider america my home without a doubt i've been living in the same house for 15 to 16 years i'm so undoubtedly i do consider this my home growing up undocumented was challenging because there's um a lot of fear and there's also a lot of uncertainty and it also poses a lot of challenges trying to obtain a higher um education degree so some of those challenges include not being able to get federal financial aid or any form of financial aid as well as it does pose it does make it more difficult to also apply for like loans so financially it it's a lot of strain well during a february news conference president trump was asked if he planned to continue or end the daca program this was his response we're going to show great heart daca is a very very difficult subject for me i will tell you to me it's one of the most difficult subjects i have because you have these incredible kids in many cases not in all cases in some of the cases they're having daca and they're gang members and they're drug dealers too but you have some absolutely incredible kids i would say mostly they were brought here in such a way it's a very it's a very very tough subject we're going to deal with daca with heart i have to deal with a lot of politicians don't forget and i have to convince them that what i'm saying is is right and i appreciate your understanding on that your reaction to president trump's uh statements and also to his general approach so far to the immigration issue in the country well this statement comes after a lot of dehumanizing rhetoric um mainly targeting not only immigrants in general but also specifically undocumented immigrants so it came as a bit of surprise just because perhaps he didn't realize when he was first speaking that when he speaks about undocumented people he's also speaking about daca recipients because it's not only a daca recipient versus non-doctor recipient because you know non-daca recipients are our parents they're also um they're you know they're in the same struggle as us where our struggle is one and the same now at rutgers the uh the university officials have declared the university a safe space for undocumented students there's a sort of an equivalent to some sanctuary cities that have developed around the country your your response to how the university has dealt with your case and the i know the faculty union has been very supportive and mobilizing people to appear with you tuesday morning at the federal at the federal building there so i have received incredible support as you said from the faculty union as well as various professors at the university i have heard that some students have been reaching out to barchy which is the president of the university for to get him to voice his um support for not only myself but also other undocumented students in my situation i have not heard um i have not heard feedback from that but i did i do know that the senate approved emotion in support of undocumented students so as of right now what we have seen um from the administration is a lot of emails by support sorry support from emails so we receive a lot of emails um stating their support for undocumented students but you know this is a case where now is the time for them to prove and demonstrate their support not only in emails but you know when an actual case arises well are they willing to kind of go against the national rhetoric and support an undocumented student so you'll be going to your ice check-in uh tuesday morning tomorrow tomorrow morning at 8 30 in newark new jersey uh you'll be accompanied by who and what and what do you expect to happen uh well my interview is at nine i but i do expect to get there early so around 8 30. um so because of the support that i have been receiving as i said not only from my university but also communities and local officials i don't think that they are going to deport or detain me because several senators as well as congress people have been in contact with ice letting them know that there is u.s senator cory booker is supporting you yes u.s senator cory booker as well as um senator bob menendez they have also i have also been in contact with them and they have been um supporting me as well as congress congressman pallone and congressman pass growl um so because of the support that i have received the tremendous amount of support that i have received um i don't think that they'll be deporting or detaining me well best of luck to you in in your hearing and we will continue to follow the the work of the the uh of the undocu rutgers as students as well as uh the daca students across the nation in their fight to assure that they were able to stay in the country legally thanks very much for being with us okay uh miss anderhart is one of the lucky ones who's getting all the support um but students you should know that that california and jerry brown likewise los angeles and uh our university the cal state university system and especially here at dominguez hills um is providing sanctuary uh for daca students and we have a center that is was created specifically to deal with daca students now for this week you have been asked to read an article on muslims and immigration in