In 2012, they were denied the political asylum they had sought here. So they were actually at that time yanked from their Germantown, MD,
home and locked up in a detention center on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland. At that time, they reached out to my congressional office,
and we joined with advocacy organizations and immigration lawyers and
local leaders to make sure that family was not deported. Then, thanks to the DACA Program, that made it possible for Dreamers
like Steven Acuna to stay in the United States legally. He just
graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the
University of Maryland. Steve aspires to be an orthopedic surgeon.
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