DACA Recipients Cope With Health Challenges in Face of Uncertainty
'Dreamers' face stress, sleep problems and anxiety.
By Ruben Castaneda, Staff Writer |Oct. 12, 2017, at 4:53 p.m.
"If uncertainty continues for a long period of time, the body's going to resent it and something's going to fall apart."
Since President Donald Trump announced he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Dulce Castro's heart beats faster whenever she thinks or talks about DACA, which shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. as kids. The 18-year-old college student in Tennessee, a DACA beneficiary, used to sleep eight hours a night, but since the September 5 announcement, she's been lucky if she gets four hours of uninterrupted rest.
https://health.usnews.com/wellness/articles/2017-10-12/daca-recipients-cope-with-health-challenges-in-face-of-uncertainty
