7 Young Women Reveal What Losing DACA Would Mean To Them & Those They Love

As we all know, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will be winding down, sometime in the next six months, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to protect DREAMers — unauthorized immigrants brought to the US as children. The program has, until now, protected nearly 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally since 2012. Trump's decision is one that former president Barack Obama sharply criticized as 'cruel'. This is all no news.

Bustle met and interviewed seven Dreamer women. New Yorkers who don't recall life in another country or even speak languages other than English. These young women are clever and educated college graduates, hardworking citizens who've spent their days in fear since Trump's tweet, wondering what will be of them and their beloved. "They’re just like the rest of us. The only difference is, they live in constant fear that all of this could be taken away in an instant."