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What Ending DACA Means For North Carolina

WUNC | By Anita Rao,
Frank Stasio
Published September 6, 2017 at 12:34 PM EDT

President Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program yesterday.

A conversation about the President's decision to end DACA with immigration reporter Tina Vasquez and Alberto, a 26-year-old DACA recipient in Durham.

If Congress does not create a solution in the next six months, hundreds of thousands of individuals who were brought to the U.S. as children or teenagers will lose legal protections and work permits. North Carolina is home to approximately 27,000 DACA recipients, many of whom were able to go to school, secure jobs, and support their families because of DACA.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Tina Vasquez, immigration reporter for Rewire, who has been speaking with DACA recipients around the state about how the program impacted their lives and their concerns about their future. He also speaks with Alberto, a 26-year-old DACA recipient in Durham about his reaction to the latest news.

Attendees at a DACA rally in Durham on Monday, September 5.
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Attendees at a DACA rally in Durham on Monday, September 5.

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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