DACAmented Law Students and Lawyers in the Trump Era

Through interviews with 33 DACA recipients pursuing legal careers, this report—a collaboration between the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and the Center for American Progress—highlights their complex experience: the uncertainty they face, their overwhelmingly positive and determined attitudes, their coping mechanisms, their self-perceived privilege, and the futures they are planning for themselves. The brief then provides policy recommendations that would help support them, and others like them, in their education and chosen profession.