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 * 1) DACA (Article already 70% complete)
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 * 3) Adding a section on how this status affects college students
 * 4) Dedios-Sanguineti, Maria Cecilia, et al. “No Place to Belong: Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States.”
 * 5) Enriquez, Laura E., et al. “Deconstructing Immigrant Illegality: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Stress and Health Among Undocumented College Students.”
 * 6) Hsin, Amy and Francesc Ortega. “The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students.”
 * 7) Muñoz, Susana M., and Darsella Vigil. “Interrogating Racist Nativist Microaggressions and Campus Climate: How Undocumented and DACA College Students Experience  Institutional Legal Violence in Colorado.”
 * 8) Patler, C. "To Reveal Or Conceal: How Diverse Undocumented Youth Navigate Legal Status Disclosure.

DACA and College Students

The effects of the rescinding and subsequent reimplementation of DACA has affected college students dramatically. The primary effects are psychological and educational in nature. The first way it does so is the general stress that comes along with having an uncertain legal status, in fact 70.9% of DACA recipients strongly agree that they worry about the future of the program. Many recipients have spoken about how their DACA status gives them anxiety because of fear for the unknown. This can then affect their education because individuals take that uncertainty and apply it to how much effort they should be putting into their school work. Thus, without knowing if they will be deported at any moment many DACA students reduce the amount of time they spend doing coursework, and some even drop out in favor of earning money at a job. A recent study shows the compound effect of being at a four-year university vs. a community college with 7.3% increase in dropout rates. Not only does this status make individuals less likely to finish their undergraduate degree, but it can even stop students from pursuing a graduate degree, especially in terms of funding.

The psychological effects of this status also becomes a barrier for DACA students in their college experience, largely because of the uncertainty that the status carries. Many reported high rates of extreme stress and anxiety as compared to their documented counterparts. Also, the internalizing of the label "illegal" made it so that these individuals saw themselves as less human. In certain cases this meant more instances of self-harm and even suicide in some cases.