KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For Darianna Seto, growing up as an undocumented immigrant in the United States was a lot of pressure.
Seto came to the United States when she was 5 years old and said she lived with fear until the Obama Administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allows young, undocumented immigrants to live and work legally in the United States.
41 Action News first met Seto, a Kansas City, Missouri, DACA recipient, over the summer as she brought awareness to the program after the acting Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, suspended DACA pending a "comprehensive" review. But on Friday a federal judge in New York ordered the Trump Administration to resume the program, allowing new applications, renewal requests and making work permits valid for two years instead of one.
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The decision will allow Seto's younger sister to apply.
"We're as American as anyone who was born here," Seto said.
But attorneys general in several states have asked a federal judge in Texas to declare the program unlawful, which is why Seto has the following advice for DACA recipients:
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"They'll have to make a plan regardless whether everything goes great and turns out and whether the worst comes and they were to cancel it," Seto said
There also is the possibility the Trump Administration could appeal the judge's ruling in coming days.
Around 650,000 people are currently enrolled in the DACA program.
