DAPA-Eligible Immigrants Face Threat Of Deportation, Advocates Say

Brenda Castro, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, has two U.S.-born children, lives in New Orleans and has been in the country since 2008. Though she has a misdemeanor for attempted theft and a prior deportation, immigrant rights advocates are confident she would qualify for the deportation relief program announced last year by the Obama administration.

The courts have blocked the implementation of that program, however, while a lawsuit against Obama’s executive actions proceeds. When Castro went to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement this past Monday, as she has done regularly in the four years since her deportation case began, they told her she would have to wear an ankle monitor — which advocates say could signal that authorities are thinking about removing her from the country.

“I qualify for DAPA,” Castro said. “I’m not afraid.”

The Huffington Post