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DACA Recipients Saw their Mental Health Improve. Now, Advocates Fear its End Will Have the Opposite Effect
Caitlin Patler interviewed by PRI's The World

PRI’s The World, November 22, 2017

In March, researchers at the University of California published a pioneering study that links the “legitimizing effect” of the DACA program with participants’ improved psychological well-being in California. The state has, by far, the largest population of beneficiaries, 223,000 people out of nearly 800,000 DACA recipients nationwide.