Shiori Akimoto

At the start of each workday, Shiori Akimoto crosses a parking lot, descends a flight of outdoor stairs and enters the Trinity United Methodist Church basement through a red door marked with the words East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant refugee rights advocate Lily Woo is applying for her third Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or DACA, renewal, which will protect her from deportation for another two years. She is able to do so, at least for now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to reject the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling regarding DACA on Monday.

A California federal judge temporarily prevented the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, on Tuesday.

Although dozens of UC Berkeley students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have submitted their applications for renewal by the Oct. 5 deadline, uncertainty looms in the undocumented community about the future of the program.

Valeska Castaneda can distinctly remember being pulled out of her preschool classroom after learning her mother was deported.