September 08, 2017
Tennessee Religious Colleges Lead Way in Pleading for DACA to Stay
Hundreds of students crammed into the chapel at Lipscomb University Thursday for a special service, sitting in the aisles or standing and peering in from a hallway outside. They were there to talk about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which for the last several years has allowed immigrants without legal status who were brought into the U.S. as children to remain in the country to study and work, as long as they don't have a criminal background or pose a threat to security.