With little exception, immigration stories (ones focused on DACA at the moment especially) betray an understanding of mixed-status families.
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Children who feel a duty to perform (for lack of a better term) as second-class non-citizens in a system that won't respect them.
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There are siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents; all those people who non-immigrants don't count in their definition of "family."
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But, since most immigration reporters are not from immigrant families, the DACA story is still the story of a given individual.
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Oh and do consider that a 5,000 word DACA explainer written by a white reporter who quotes exactly zero immigrants is... insufficient.
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