Joana Toro Documentary Photographer

DACA Activists of New York

Dreamers are at risk of losing their DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) visa status.

DACA is a program established by the Obama administration in 2012 that protected 800,000 young immigrants from deportation.
The administration of President Trump announced to put an end to a migration plan that exempts from deportation and grants temporary work permits to some 800,000 immigrants brought without authorization to the United States as children.
If DACA expires 915 Dreamers will lose protection from deportation each day according to the Migration Policy Institute.

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Jackson Heights, melting pot of ethnicities and cultures. Hispanic Neighborhood. Queens, New York.

Captions Daca Activists for Make The Road NY was looking the Obama speech which Obama bypassed the Congress, where Republican lawmakers have blocked the DREAM Act, by issuing an executive order halting the deportation of over a million undocumented students on June 4, 2012, in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC

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Daca Activists Natalia Aristizabal (L) and Oscar Chico (R) is looking the Obama speech in which Obama bypassed the Congress, where Republican lawmakers have blocked the DREAM Act, by issuing an executive order halting the deportation of over a million undocumented students on June 4, 2012, in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC

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Daca Activists Natalia Aristizabal (left) is celebrating the Obama bypassed the Congress, where Republican lawmakers have blocked the DREAM Act, by issuing an executive order halting the deportation of over a million undocumented students on June 4, 2012, in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC

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Daca Activists are going to Albani to find support for Dreamers Law in New York senate in Albany New York on April 24, 2012

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Albany capital of state of New York, A group young Hispanic activists of Make The road who promote the Dream Act Found was visiting to the assembly in Albany of NY which was approved the 'DREAM Act Found' with a private- public initiative to help undocumented students in NY state.

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Albany capital of state of New York, Mateo Tavares and a group young Hispanic activists of Make The road who promote the Dream Act Found was visiting to the assembly in Albany of NY which was approved the 'DREAM Act Found' with a private- public initiative to help undocumented students in NY state.

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Jackson Heights, melting pot of ethnicities and cultures. Hispanic Neighborhood. Queens, New York.

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Hundreds of people line up around the block from t make the road of new york to apply for deportation reprieve on August 15, 2012 in NYC. Under a new program established by the Obama administration undocumented youth who qualify for the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, can file applications from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website to avoid deportation and obtain the right to work.

Captions Oscar Chico and other Daca activists are celebrating the New York DREAM found Commission senate bill #1250 created in April 12/2019 to give financial opportunity programs for Daca students and graduates in New York State on April 24, 2019, Jackson Heights, Queens.

Captions DACA recipients and Dreamers Yatziri Tovar,25 student of Political Sciences at City College (left) and Anthony Alarcon student of Studies Film (center) turn their backs on U.S President Donald Trump on-screen during the State of Union speech at the pro-immigrant headquarters 'Make The Road New York’ in Jackson Heights, Queens,on January 30, 2018 in New York City.

Captions Statue of Liberty wall at a neighborhood in Queens on March 17, 2015

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David Choi is working as Community Organizing fellow in Minkwon Center for community action in Flushing, Queens.

David is a Daca recipient who born in Argentina in 1991 his first language Spanish at the age of five David come back to Korea, his grandma teach him Korean en six months.

With nine years Davis come to America in middle of trying to figure out his identity. He was scare by New York at first but he see that experience as positive in his life.

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David Choi is working as Community Organizing fellow in Minkwon Center for community action in Flushing, Queens.

David is a Daca recipient who born in Argentina in 1991 his first language Spanish at the age of five David come back to Korea, his grandma teach him Korean en six months.

With nine years Davis come to America in middle of trying to figure out his identity. He was scare by New York at first but he see that experience as positive in his life.

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Detail inside of Minkwon Center for community action where David and Jisu work in Flushing neighborhood.

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Jisu Kim 24 years old, is working at he front desk in Minkwon Center for community action in Flushing, Queens. She is DACA recipient who arrive to Flushing from Korea at the age of ten. She learned English after tree years. Her bigger challenge was translate teacher and parents meetings in the school.

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David Choi is working as Community Organizing fellow in Minkwon Center for community action in Flushing, Queens.

David is a Daca recipient. He is amaze seeing how in New York 150 languages are talking in a diversity immigrant city.

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Jisu is DACA recipient she is working in Minkwon Center helping Koreans and Chinese immigrants communities in Flushing, Queens as Program Associate. Jisu and her sister

selected randomly their American names using a yearbook.Some sounds in Korean does not exist in English so she couldn’t wrote her Korean name. Her family arrived from Korea to Flushing directly, she does not imagine living in other place.

Captions Statue of Liberty wall paint in headquarters of Make the Road New York in Bushwick Brooklyn.

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Working classes meeting in Make the Road New york is a Community Service/Non-Profit organization, where Guadalupe and her daughters are an active members.

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Detail of family Huitzil Paleta pictures. The family arrives in New York 17 years ago finding a better future for her family.

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Family Huitzil Paleta in a Sunday day at Queens New York

Captions Lizbeth in a rally that supports Dreamers in front of Trump tower in 5 ave in Manhattan on March 3, 2018

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Lizbeth and her sister Adriana in her room

Captions Jacinto who has been working as a social event photographer is taking pictures of a quinceañera in Dumbo, on October 27, 2018

Captions Jacinto who has been working as a server and social photographer is looking pictures in his home at Astoria, Queens on September 3, 2018

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Lizbeth and Adriana go to school her mother blesses her daughters while they are waiting for the bus.

Lizbeth is a student of Biology in La Guardia community college and Adriana is in high school in la Guardia too.

Captions Adriana is an American born she is student hight school, she finds in the Police service a good option for her future. Here is with her sister Lizbeth going to the school.

Captions Lizbeth is going to class at La Guardia Community College on September 12 in Queens New York

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Guadalupe and Jacinto parents of Lizbeth and Adriana humble Mexican workers making their daughters professionals women, working very hard without rest, bonuses or paid vacations. “By the end of the day all the efforts made have a reward” said Guadalupe in their house in Queens New York

Captions Manhattan view of the Statue of Liberty

Joana Toro Documentary Photographer

Joana Toro is a Colombian documentary photographer. working on immigration, Identity and social issues.

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