One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos
Denisse Rojas, a third-year medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, with a mixture of resignation and resolve.
"In some ways there's a lot of uncertainty, but I have dealt with uncertainty my whole life," she said. "It's a reminder that we're much more than our immigration status, that our families have been able to succeed in spite of our challenges."
Rojas is one of some 800,000 "Dreamers" who were permitted to attend college and work in the U.S. for two-year periods without fear of deportation under the Obama-era program initiated through executive order in 2012. . .