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Roshan Taroll says his mother, Beena Preth, brought him to the United States as a child in hopes he would put his nose to the grindstone and shoot his shot at accessing the bounty of opportunity uniquely offered by America. He will not have the chance. The irony lies in why. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, instituted during President Barack Obama’s administration, protects people from deportation if they arrived in the U.S. unlawfully as children through no fault of their own. Many of those individuals do not meaningfully know any other country but the U.S. as home. …

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