She now works 30 hours a
week as a case manager while attending Bay State Community College full
time. She has been a model student, earning a 3.9 grade point average,
and she hopes to enter nursing school in January. Paola has been a DACA recipient since 2013, but her current status
expires next year. This means that unless Congress acts and saves the
program, Paola and thousands like her will have to leave the United
States for countries they do not really know and no longer consider to
be home. Paola's case, like many others, is even more difficult because she
has a 4-year-old son--a child who is an American citizen by birth and
has never known any other home than the United States. All Paola wants is to stay here with her son, get her nursing degree,
get a good job, and give back to the country so much more than she has
been given. Instead, Paola and countless other young people and
families across the United States face uncertain futures. Instead of
going to sleep tonight knowing they will be able to live their lives in
peace and plan for the future, they are left with uncertainty,
vulnerable to deportation, and unable to work legally. This is a human
tragedy in the making. It is heartbreaking, it is unjust, and it is
just plain wrong.
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