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On Feb 10, 2017, Daniel Ramirez Medina was arrested and taken from his home in Washington State as part of an immigration raid. Daniel is one of roughly 750,000 “Dreamers,” undocumented youth who applied for and received temporary relief from deportation under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Medina repeatedly told immigration enforcement agents that he had legal documents with DACA, but they arrested him anyway, claiming he was a gang member on the grounds that he had a tattoo on his hand.

President Trump launched aggressive changes to immigration policy during his rst month in o ce, including an attempt to ban all refugees and all documented visitors and temporary and permanent residents from seven primarily Muslim countries, and to deport some 11 million undocumented migrants estimated to be residing in the US. Trump claims that DACA recipients are not a ected, but the BBC reports that the arrest of Daniel Ramirez Medina may signal bigger changes:“The rst of the so-called ‘dreamers’ arrested under the Trump administration now faces deportation. Is this immigration enforcement business as usual or something new?”(Lussenhop, 2017).