They both promote education for disadvantaged
youth. She was now not only learning and studying at one of the great
universities in our country but giving back to others, enabling others
to climb that same ladder, young people with disadvantages like hers to
make the most of themselves and to achieve that American dream. When Attorney General Sessions, with the President's approval,
rescinded DACA in September, Alejandra wrote to me:
I wanted this to be my country so badly. One thing that I
knew from the bottom of my heart was that I wanted to stay
here, and that I was an American. Anyone who looks at Alejandra, knows her story, and hears her words
has to be heartbroken that a young woman seeking so deeply to be an
American, to live the American dream and American values, to give back
to this country that she loves, and never to take for granted what so
many of us do--we have to be heartbroken to hear those words and her
story.