A Hudson Valley lawmaker is asking DACA recipients to share their stories as they face deportation.

Representative Sean Patrick Maloney was on hand at SUNY Orange in Newburgh Tuesday to talk with DACA recipients. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program lets people who came to the United States illegally as children to stay here. Recipients must pay a fee, stay out of legal trouble and pay taxes.

After President Donald Trump announced last year that DACA would end in 2018, Maloney says some recipients have been living with uncertainty.

"These good people, often very young people, have been living with this sword hanging over their head and we're watching an increase in deportations and harassment and in all sorts of things that are, frankly, unnecessary and counterproductive," Maloney said.

Maloney says if Congress fails to act, some DACA recipients could be deported by March 5.