Diana Pliego works on a range of issues, including protection for DACA recipients and immigrant youth and fighting immigration enforcement. She leads the DACA team and our summer FirstGEN Fellows Program. Her expertise includes policy research, legislative analysis, and crafting strategic materials for effective advocacy. She enjoys collaborating across NILC teams and with coalition partners to reach our goals of advancing and protecting the rights of low-income immigrants and their families.
Diana shares a birthday with Princess Diana and has experienced the thrill of skydiving.
What is Actually Happening with DACA?
Published Oct 3, 2025 There’s a lot of chatter going around about what is happening with Deferred Action for...
Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today
Published Jan 17, 2020 Earlier this week, on January 13, 2020, we marked the two-year anniversary of the first injunction that reopened the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal application process. The first injunction and the injunctions that...
Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay
Published Oct 25, 2019 Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases. But it will be doing more than that. Its deliberation, on any scale, is a debate over whether I and hundreds...
What does the BIA Decision Mean for DACA recipients?
Diana Pliego and Kevin Siegel
Published Apr 30, 2026 If someone with DACA gets arrested and detained by immigration or other law enforcement and ends up before an immigration judge, the judge may now look into their case more closely to comply with the BIA decision. However, the decision does not...