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DACA beneficiary achieving her goals, but lives with uncertainty

Indira Islas is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants immigrants brought to the U.S. as children rights to work, study and live in the country on a renewable permit — a group that has come to be known as “dreamers.”

Indira Islas — Indira Islas is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants immigrants brought to the U.S. as children rights to work, study and live in the country on a renewable permit — a group that has come to be known as “dreamers.”

Indira Islas and her family typically spend the 4th of July just like most Americans. Independence Day cookouts and fireworks have been familiar and comfortable experiences for Islas ever since her family immigrated from Mexico to Gainesville in 2004.