Category: Uncertainty

Maria, 25, Detroit, Michigan, Born in Mexico My mother, younger brother and I came to the U.S. 16 years ago on a tourist visa when I was nine years old.  We came to reunite with my dad who had been living in Detroit f ...

Emerson M., 27, Menlo Park, CA, Born in Lima, Peru As an entrepreneur from Peru, I came to San Francisco when I was 17 to attend college, intent on studying computer engineering. My mom, a naturalized U.S. citizen, wa ...

Belen S, 21, Gilbert, Arizona, Born in Argentina The full meaning of being undocumented didn’t register with Belen until she was 16 -- when her friends started getting their drivers’ licenses, finding part-time jobs a ...

After my father entered the U.S. with the help of coyotes, he saved enough money to send someone for my mom, my two-year old sister and me, eight at the time.  We were excited about seeing our father as we got on the ...

Carlos P, 22, Washington, DC, Born in Guadalajara, Mexico Brought to the U.S. from Mexico with my two siblings when I was only two, the U.S. is the only country I know. My mom brought her family here so she could prov ...

Hereth A, 21, Washington D.C., Born in Bolivia I came to the nation’s capitol in 2001 with my grandparents and my little sister just before the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers on 9/11. We had left the cultur ...

Sagar P, 23, Louisville, Kentucky, Born in India I watched my father get rejected three times in his effort to continue his U.S. residency through a work permit. His 10-year multiple visa was revoked and he was sent b ...

Laura L, 27, Provo, Utah, Born in Mexico City I have lived with so much fear and anxiety since arriving in the States 15 years ago that my condition has now been diagnosed as PTSD. To enter the country, my mother, my tw ...

Valerie R, 18, Racine, Wisconsin, Born in Mexico City I was only three when I was separated from my father for a week in Mexico while both of us were trying to reunite with my mom already living and working in Wiscons ...