WASHINGTON — Luz Chavez has marched to the Capitol building, occupied senators’ offices, and rallied outside the Supreme Court in a desperate bid to prevent the federal government from snatching her life from under her.
The coronavirus outbreak has only made her effort more urgent.
A junior at Trinity Washington University and a political organizer, Chavez, 22, is one of more than 640,000 people who have been in limbo since the Trump administration ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a temporary protective status for immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children.
Since November, Chavez has been waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the fate of the initiative and thus her own, a ruling that could come any time in June. But nothing could have prepared her for this second crisis, which has raised the stakes even higher on that decision because now her family is dependent more than ever on the money she brings into the household.
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