Updated: July 10, 2018

On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration made a shameful decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program while giving Congress a six-month delay to come up with a legislative solution. On January 9th 2018, a federal court ruled that while a lawsuit decides whether the termination of DACA was unlawful, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) must continue to accept renewal applications! While on April 24, 2018, a federal court issued an order requiring USCIS to re-accept initial DACA applications, but not immediately. Click here for resources.

San Diegans from across the County came out to Downtown San Diego to speak out against the Trump administration's decision to end a 2012 executive order that granted deportation protections to young immigrants.

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants are awaiting word on the fate of the "Dreamer" program. 

By Itzel Guillen

I woke up on a recent Wednesday morning with my stomach in knots. The day for my trip to Tijuana, Mexico had come. As a border resident and DACA recipient, I would have never dared to get so close to the border with Mexico.

But here I was, riding inside a car, making my way to Mexico, a country I have not seen since I was 5 years old. My heart skipped a beat when we drove past that last US exit. We kept driving. We made it to a checkpoint, and a sign that read “BIENVENIDOS A MEXICO.”