DACA Now: Returning Home to Mexico for the First Time in 17 Years Juan Ramirez - OPB.org
go to original August 16, 2016

Juan Ramirez (left) with his father in Mexico (Juan Ramirez/OPB)

On June 2012, President Barack Obama signed into policy the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals also known as DACA. The policy provides a work permit and exemption from deportation that is renewable every two years to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. under the age of 16.



Former OPB news intern Juan Ramirez obtained a deportation deferral and was able to apply for “advance parole” — a permit that lets non-legal residents be paroled back into the U.S. — so he could travel to visit his sick father. Ramirez returned to Mexico this past fall for the first time in almost two decades.

Read his story at OPB.org

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