A DACA Recipient Speaks Out (Originally aired Sep. 27, 2017)

Guest: Jose Franco, Recipient of DACA, BYU graduate Congress has a week to pass another funding bill to keep the government open. One of the sticking points is that some in Congress would like to tie it to a bill protecting so-called Dreamers. These are undocumented individuals brought to the US as children. Hundreds of thousands of them are currently protected from deportation and allowed to work legally because of the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. President Trump has ordered that program to end next March. Many in Congress would like to write DACA into law and worry waiting any longer will make it harder to do.