DACA helped her find a voice. Organizer is charting her next step

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DACA helped her find a voice. Organizer is charting her next step

Estefania Navarro was at a hardware store in 2012, when she heard an announcement interrupting the music on the shop’s radio that would change her life. Then-President Barack Obama had just created a new immigration program for undocumented youth like herself. “I do remember feeling conflicted,” said Navarro, now 30, of the program she would later find out is called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “Why do I get this opportunity—bu…