University of Houston biology student Katia Elisea Escobar, 18, attends a rally outside the Harris County Democratic Party offices, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, in Houston. Katia is an undocumented immigrant and would be eligible for DACA if a Texas judge hadn't ended the program for new applicants.

From the time she waded across the Rio Grande with her mother, Frida Adame has known the uncertainty of living undocumented in America.

She was 10 when she arrived in Texas from Mexico with her mother and sister. Her father was already in the U.S., but he was deported five years later.

She's now 28, works hard, pays taxes, and has a network of friends and family here. But in the days after last week's presidential election, Adame's uncertainty turned into fear with President-elect Donald Trump's vow to uphold his campaign promise to deport the more than 11 million immigrants living in the United States without legal permission.

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This includes those like Adame, a recipient of DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows people who came to the country when they were children to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation. The program, initiated in 2012 by President Barack Obama, has protected approximately 500,000 young immigrants from deportation. In Texas there........

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