‘Dreamers,' long a symbol of immigrant youth, are increasingly easing into middle age as eligibility requirements have been frozen since 2012 when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was introduced.
Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, 36, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient who moved to the U.S. from Brazil when she was 14, poses for a portrait, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, outside her apartment in Washington.
Now, a decade later at age 36, graduate studies at Princeton University are behind her and she works in Washington as deputy director of advocacy for United We Dream, a national group. The average age of a DACA recipient was 28.2 years in March, up from 23.8 in September 2017, according to the Migration Policy Institute. About 40% are 30 or older, according to fwd.us, a group that supports DACA.
"DACA is not for young people,” Macedo do Nascimento said. “They’re not even eligible for it anymore. We are well into middle age.”
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