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dreamers

Despite deportation fears, this DACA recipient and Nashville business owner hopes for a future here in America

Char Daston

January 31, 2025

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Luis Cortes owns four Red Bicycle Coffee shops. He’s lived in this country for almost 25 years. But he still must plan for what happens if he’s deported.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: DACA, DREAM Act, dreamers, illegal immigration, Immigration

DACA Students And Families Gather At Glencliff To Ask ‘What Next?’

Julieta Martinelli

September 8, 2017

TIRRC's Camila Fyler and Attorney Bethany Jackson with Justice For Our Neighbors standing on stage with a microphone

Glencliff is one of the most diverse high schools in the state. Almost half of the student population is Hispanic or Latino. And many of them have protection under the DACA program. So that’s where the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition held a workshop Thursday night for students and their families to try to […]

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: DACA, dreamers

How The End Of DACA Affects An Entire Classroom in Antioch

Julieta Martinelli

September 6, 2017

  Listen Tuesday was hard for Evelin Salgado’s students. She teaches at Cane Ridge High School in Antioch, and many of the seats in her classroom are occupied by DREAMers. They are able to drive, work and enroll in college, thanks to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the Trump administration now plans […]

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: DACA, dreamers

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