Mexican DREAMers Use Fiction to Share Their Immigration Reality
Mexican DREAMers Use Fiction to Share Their Immigration Reality
Young immigrants will present their work at AQ’s May 18 launch event.
Paper plays an outsized role in Amalia Rojas’ life. A lack of papers – or at least a lack of the right ones – diverted her college dreams when, at 18, she found out she hadn’t been born in the U.S. and didn’t have the legal status she needed to apply for financial aid.
Six years later, the promise of those papers – and a fear that the election of Donald Trump would spoil the tenuous status she’d earned in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy – prompted her to consider marriage long before she’d ever planned.
And it’s on paper – as a budding...
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