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In the fight for DACA, this lawyer has a personal stake

Nearly 800,000 DACA recipients are waiting for Congress to reach a decision on the future of the program that has protected them from deportation. Immigration lawyer Luis Cortes, who spends his days defending “Dreamers,” is one of them. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano speaks to him about coming to terms with his own legal status and his work on immigration law.