Immigrants like Mr. Ramirez are living in a precarious legal state. “Yes, I have a work permit,” Mr. Ramirez told them. Mr. Ramirez was then fingerprinted, booked and taken to a detention center in Tacoma, where he has remained. The government went so far as to set up a 24-hour legal hotline for DACA recipients to call if they are taken in for deportation. Mr. Ramirez recently moved to Seattle from California so that he could find a job with better pay to support his 3-year-old son, his lawyers said.

Source: New York Times February 15, 2017 01:29 UTC