{"id":3521,"date":"2014-02-25T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/life-after-daca-one-policy-different-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T17:24:53","slug":"life-after-daca-one-policy-different-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/life-after-daca-one-policy-different-outcomes","title":{"rendered":"Life After DACA: One Policy, Different Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cbtp5qKYqQc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>By VoiceWaves Youth Reporter Michael Lozano<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since President Obama established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in August 2012, more than 400,000 young people have received DACA benefits. For many, DACA brought welcome relief to the constant stress, anxiety and fear that often came with a life without papers.&nbsp;<i>VoiceWaves<\/i>&nbsp;interviewed four \u201cDACAmented\u201d youth to explore the many different ways DACA has changed the way they live their lives and the hopes they have for a better future.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.voicewaves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ana.jpg\" alt=\"ana\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/strong>Ana Roman, 25<\/strong><br \/>Cashier at local cleaners<br \/>Studying Psychology, Chicano Studies &amp; Africana Studies at CSULB<\/p>\n<p>Ana Roman spent a late November weekend driving from her Long Beach home 45 miles east to Claremont for a conference for immigrant youth.<\/p>\n<p>That long trek was huge for Roman. Before she was approved for DACA, she had to undergo two impoundments of her car, for driving without a license.<\/p>\n<p>Life before DACA was tough. Roman was denied and fired from multiple jobs for using false identification. To better her life, Roman decided to take a risk: to drive without a license to get to and from work and school. Then things took a costly turn.<\/p>\n<p>Roman\u2019s car was impounded. Twice. Car impoundments can end up costing undocumented immigrants hundreds of dollars, and sometimes even losing the car itself.<\/p>\n<p>For Roman, her experience with impoundments led her to determine that she would never own another vehicle for six years. But now, Roman can rest assured that an impoundment won\u2019t happen again\u2014at least in the next two years\u2014because DACA now affords her a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives me the freedom to go anywhere I want\u2026 I don\u2019t have to think about it twice,\u201d Roman said.<\/p>\n<p>Roman has lived in Long Beach since she and her mother came to the U.S. from Mexico City when she was 8 years old. Today, Roman advocates for other immigrant youth and calls on organizers to challenge themselves to push the immigrant rights movement further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we\u2019re secure to go out. It\u2019s time to speak up for our parents and families,\u201d Roman said.<\/p>\n<p>Roman\u2019s dream career is to teach social justice law as a professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore DACA, I wasn\u2019t so sure about what I was going to do with my degree,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was pretty depressing at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now, she finally has a valid social security number so she will be able to put her degree to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nine numbers that give me freedom to give back, to do as much as I can to my fullest potential. That\u2019s the best thing I\u2019ve got from DACA,\u201d said Roman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicewaves.org\/2014\/01\/life-after-daca-one-policy-different-outcomes\/\">READ MORE AT VOICEWAVES.ORG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, President Obama&#8217;s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program&nbsp;brought welcome relief to the constant stress, anxiety and fear that often came with a life without papers.&nbsp;<i>VoiceWaves<\/i>&nbsp;interviewed four \u201cDACAmented\u201d youth to explore the many different ways DACA has changed the way they live their lives and the hopes they have for a better future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":68772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1522,349],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-undocumented","tag-voicewaves","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}