Young immigrants prepare for new U.S. deportation policy
Atlanta (CNN) -- Daniel Guadalupe stared at the passport application in front of him, dumbfounded.
His problem was not the questions asked, but the language they were written in.
"I don't speak Spanish very well," he said as he struggled to fill out the Mexican government form. "I'll have to call my mom."
The 18-year-old is one of more than a million people that U.S. officials estimate could benefit from the Obama administration's deferred deportation program aimed at illegal immigrants younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16.
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The high school senior was born in Mexico but brought illegally to the United States when he was 8 years old.
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The process is not always simple for young immigrants in the United States who don't have birth certificates or passports handy, said Abigail Calleja, consul for protection at the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta.
Some of the hundreds of children who have lined up at the consulate over the past few weeks have no idea where their father is, Calleja said -- a problem because Mexican law requires kids under 18 to have the signature and fingerprints from both parents.
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