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    As DACA's fate remains uncertain, those under program build plans for the future

    by By Meredith Colias, Chicago Tribune Sep 12, 2017 5 minutes

    EAST CHICAGO, Ind. - With her future newly uncertain, Maria Enriquez is waiting to see how she can apply to Ivy Tech Community College in East Chicago.

    Days after President Donald Trump announced he would move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program if Congress doesn't fix the immigration issue in six months, she's decided to go ahead with her goal of becoming a pediatrician. Hovering, however, is the threat that the end of the program could result in her deportation.

    At 4, her parents brought her and older siblings into the country from Michoacan, Mexico.

    Two of her older siblings are now in college. One is studying to be a nurse, she said, while the other is studying business.

    Although Enriquez speaks Spanish and

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