When Hutchinson community activist Esmeralda Tovar-Mora had the opportunity to visit with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office last week, she shared with him a recent stressful experience in her life.
Seated beside the president, she told him about when her permit issued under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expired.
The policy temporarily protects immigrants brought to the country as children from being deported and allows them legally to work and drive.
It was her fourth renewal, and Tovar-Mora, brought here by her parents from Mexico when she was 2, thought that she’d applied in plenty of time.