DACA

Attorneys in the Tampa Bay region said DACA recipients being swept up in aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

The bill would create a path to lawful permanent residence for young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. They have been dubbed “The Dreamers.”

Murilo Alves, 28, is in his final year of medical school — a career path inspired by his experiences as an undocumented immigrant. Despite him saying that "everything changed" when he received DACA in 2012, Alves says he and the more than half a million Dreamers in the U.S. face an uncertain future.

President Trump failed to revoke DACA in his first term and his focus on immigration this time has mostly ignored the policy. Still, Republican lawmakers are deferring to the president on the issue.

Florida lawmakers are getting rid of a waiver that lets students without legal status pay in-state tuition. We hear from two students about what this means for their future.

Hours after the Florida Legislature passed one of the nation’s strictest immigration bills, Hernan, a college student from central Florida, found himself in a state of anxiety and paranoia. His biggest worry: paying his college tuition.

The unanimous decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans — two judges appointed by Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and one by Democrat Barack Obama — is the latest blow for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, whose beneficiaries have lived in legal limbo for more than a decade.

A federal judge sided with Florida and 18 other states that challenged a Biden administration rule to allow Dreamers to access the Affordable Care Act, but an appeals court has issued a stay.

Senate President Ben Albritton suggests phasing out law allowing undocumented immigrant students to receive in-state tuition in Florida.

A federal judge has ruled that immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 states aren't entitled to health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The decision limits an effort by the Biden administration to help young adults brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Tens of thousands of recipients under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, are eligible — for the first time — to sign up for affordable health insurance during open enrollment until Jan. 15.

Diego and Leo Dulanto Falcon talk about the fraught ways their immigration status marked their childhood, and how they carved a path forward.