PBS: Working Long Hours Adds Hurdle for Undocumented Students

Currently, about 87 percent of the young people in the DACA program are employed, and America’s 1.3 million DACA-eligible youth, including those who haven’t enrolled, contribute an estimated $2 billion in state and local taxes, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. One of the express purposes of DACA, beyond protecting immigrant youth from deportation, was to enable them to legally work — but, as Avilez noted, the work itself can become another roadblock to the dream. Read more