Lawmakers in the US Congress are working to secure a deal for young undocumented immigrants to remain in the country.
In September, President Trump said he'd wind down the Obama-era 'DACA' law, which protected some 800,000 people - known as 'Dreamers' - from deportation. President Trump has since urged Congress to work on a replacement.
Around 10 per cent of DACA recipients came to the US from Asia.
Our US Correspondent Harry Horton has been to meet some of them.
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Fighting for the right to stay in the country they call home.
Outside the US Congress on a sunny winter morning, just some of the thousands of so-called 'Dreamers' whose legal future in America is in limbo are making themselves heard.
Asians make up around ten percent of DACA recipients - many of them from South Korea, the Philippines and India.
Saba Nafees moved to Texas when she was just eleven years old - fleeing violence in Lahore in Pakistan.
But when her family visa sponsors died, Saba's paperwork to stay in the US legally fell through.
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"Being undocumented, living in the shadows is not fun at all. It is the worst part of being in this country. And so when DACA came out it was beautiful because I was able to work and get paid for the work I did and do the research I did."
But with the future of DACA now in jeopardy, Saba fears being forced to return to Pakistan.
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"We wouldn't be able to speak the language, some of us wouldn't be able to assimilate in the country we were born in. It would be really difficult and more than anything we feel like we're Americans."
Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu was himself an immigrant to the US and has worked on his own DACA legislation.
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"I think even Republican legislators understand that deporting someone who was brought here as a child to a country they've never even seen or been to before is cruel, it's unusual and it is not American."
Supporters of President Trump say when President Obama signed DACA into law he was abusing his presidential powers in bypassing Congress.
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"In no way shape or form does President Trump want to deport all these people that are under DACA, but we want to find another solution for them to be able to stay here while complying with federal law as well."
Congress has until March to find a way to protect DACA.
Most Democrats and Republicans agree that something needs to be done.
But coming up with a solution in such a toxic political climate has proven difficult.
If Congress fails, the fear of deportation will only grow for the thousands of young immigrants who say America is their only home.
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