Immigration anxiety: Dreamers lose legal status and jobs in renewal delay
Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group
Blanca Lopez is photographed in her family’s home on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, in Union City, Calif. Lopez was granted temporary relief from deportation under a federal program known as DACA, but her renewal application has yet to arrive and has caused her temporary legal status to expire. As a result, Lopez was terminated from her job at Workday.
By TATIANA SANCHEZ | tsanchez@bayareanewsgroup.com
PUBLISHED: October 28, 2016 at 7:00 am | UPDATED: October 28, 2016 at 12:48 pm
When Blanca Lopez received temporary relief from deportation, it seemed like the opportunities ahead were endless.
The 26-year-old Union City woman, brought here at age 4 by parents who immigrated illegally from Mexico, graduated from Cal Poly State University. She got a job as an operations analyst for Workday, the Pleasanton-based human resources and financial services company.
But last month, Lopez’s status in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program expired, even though she filed her request for renewal about four months in advance. No longer eligible to work in the U.S., Lopez — who said she had been poised to receive a promotion — was terminated by Workday.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/2...renewal-delay/
