Renoites Offer DACA Assistance Before Renewal Deadline
The deadline for people to renew their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status is fast approaching, and northern Nevadans are organizing legal help.
Turnout for these events has been low so far, and organizers are worried.
Both Nevada senators have voiced their support for DACA recipients. Here’s Catherine Cortez Masto on the issue.
They are future doctors and scientists and teachers,” she said. “I mean, it is incredible to me that anybody would want to deport these kids, let alone their families, because they contribute economically to this state.”
Congress has a limited window of time to determine the fate of the program.
A group of conservative attorneys general says DACA was an abuse of presidential power during the Obama administration.
This report was produced in partnership with NPR member station Reno Public Radio, KUNR 88.7 FM.
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Natalie Van Hoozer
Natalie is a freelance journalist and translator based in Reno, Nevada who reports in English and Spanish. She also works for the nonprofit SembraMedia, supporting independent, digital Spanish-language media in the United States. Previously she was a Fulbright scholar in Argentina and worked on Latin American projects at the International Center for Journalists. She has also taught university podcasting classes online and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in both journalism and Spanish from the University of Nevada, Reno. For her undergraduate thesis, she researched the landscape of bilingual Spanish-English reporting in the state of California. -- Natalie es periodista y traductora freelance en Reno, Nevada y trabaja en español e inglés. También es embajadora para SembraMedia en Estados Unidos, donde investiga medios independientes y digitales en español en el país. Antes era becaria de Fulbright en la Argentina y trabajé como asistente de programas para el Centro Internacional para Periodistas, enfocada en los proyectos de América Latina. También ha sido profesora universitaria en línea sobre podcasting. Tiene una licenciatura de la Universidad de Nevada, Reno, en periodismo y español. Para la tesis de su licenciatura investigó el ámbito del periodismo bilingüe en inglés y español en el estado de California. Twitter: @NatVanH