Many immigrants eligible for Deferred Action struggle to apply

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Many immigrants eligible for Deferred Action struggle to apply

More than half a million young people have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, and 71,000 of them are in California. Many more of those eligible have yet to apply.

Zenaida Ventura (R) is helping her bothers with the DACA application.

More than half a million young people have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, and 71,000 of them are in California. Many more of those eligible have yet to apply.

It has been two years since President Barack Obama approved a temporary reprieve from deportation for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

More than half a million young people have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, and 71,000 of them are in California.

Many more of those eligible have yet to apply. For The California Report, Alice Daniel has the story.