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Donors, state puting up funds so DACA recipients can pay their renewal fees (CA)

Friday, September 22, 2017

Donors, state puting up funds so DACA recipients can pay their renewal fees

 

"Some young immigrants facing an Oct. 5 deadline to renew work permits and deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program are receiving help to pay their $495 renewal fees.

On Friday morning, young people crowded a meeting room at the Koreatown office of Public Counsel, a pro bono legal firm, to get legal help filling out the renewal forms. A private donor who asked for anonymity put up $50,000 that will cover almost all of the DACA recipients' renewal costs..."

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