The Texas Tribune Weekend Audio Brief for Oct. 9, 2021

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A federal judge in Texas ordered the Department of Homeland Security this summer to stop approving applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Obama-era initiative offers certain young adults two years of protection from deportation and a right to work.

We spoke to Alejandra, an undocumented student at the University of Texas at Austin who has tried to apply to the DACA program multiple times. She is angered by the back-and-forth politics that have restricted her from receiving a sense of security from the program. It is the policy of The Texas Tribune not to include the full name of sources who are undocumented.

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Ashley Miznazi is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin and returned for a second semester as a multimedia fellow at The Texas Tribune until May 2022. She previously worked as a reporting intern...

Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...