'My daughters are going to be OK.' Then Trump phased out DACA
LOS ANGELES - Behind closed doors, Bertha Martinez and her husband, Victor Soriano, often discussed how they would tell their oldest daughter that she was in the country illegally.
"We didn't want to hurt her," Soriano said.
Paying someone to sneak 7-year-old Brenda and 3-year-old Diana across the border in the back of a minivan had seemed like the right choice in 2002.
In their L.A. apartment, the girls' happy portraits and their many certificates of achievement were testament enough that coming to the U.S. had been good.
But as Brenda grew older, as she headed toward college and work, the potential consequences of her legal status weighed more heavily on Soriano and Martinez.
Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program relieved the pressure for this couple
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