Community organizer fundraising for Arkansas DACA renewals [Video]

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — A local community organizer is fundraising to help Arkansas DACA recipients stay in the US.

According to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, there are nearly 4,000 active DACA Recipients in the state of Arkansas. With a list of requirements, undocumented migrants were protected from deportation in 2012 under the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

“Honestly, it can be from someone that works at Walmart home office to someone that works at a poultry factory,” community organizer Irvin Camacho said. “It’s your neighbors, it’s people that went to the school system that you went to, and it’s people that you see every day in your everyday life.”

Berenice Alcala is one of those recipients, having moved to Arkansas from Mexico at one year old. She has …