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Under Trump, DACA Recipients Struggle with New Uncertainty

Living in Trump's Deportation America right now feels like "pure trauma" says a DACA recipient in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

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Pablo De La Rosa
Dec 09, 2025
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A person crosses the Gateway International Bridge from Brownsville, Texas, into Matamoros, Mexico on February 14, 2021. (Photo credit: Go Nakamura via Getty Images)

Mateo Hernández remembers the day his mother disappeared in 2016. She was captured by ICE in the front yard of his brother’s house in the Rio Grande Valley. At the time, his three-year-old s…

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