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DACA recipients are sharing their powerful stories as part of the ‘Home Is Here’ campaign NewsColony The video comes as the Supreme Court is soon expected to announce its decision on the Trump administration’s termination of the program, with a decision in the administration’s favor standing to have devastating repercussions. “With the termination of DACA,” Velasquez says, “we are potentially deporting queer and trans immigrants to a death sentence.”  Immigration is an LGBTQ   issue, with an estimated 36,000 DACA recipients identifying as LGBTQ. Another DACA recipient profiled in the legal brief was Manny, who came to the U.S. from Nigeria when he was 8 years old. Today he’s a musician with a promising career, winning a Grammy as part the   American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom collaborative album. But even with all his success, Manny said that “being undocumented affects everything. Things like hea...