BuzzFeed-Trump's decision to end DACA throws this colleges dreamer's fate up in the air.
This article I copied from BuzzFeed News to improve my English reading and help easy to mark some sentences that I didn't understand or I have rarely used.
Trump's decision to end DACA throws this colleges dreamer's fate up in the air.
Sanchez has a big plan. He's poised to graduate from university, with honors degree in biomedical science and has been perusing graduate programs at prestigious schools like Harvey college.
The 21-year-old from Enid, wants to teach science to low-income students and has been preparing applications for teaching programs like Teach for America.
But on Tuesday, a potentially huge problem emerged for him.
Sanchez who came to Enid with his parents when he was 3 years old, is one of an estimated 800000 undocumented immigrants who have DACA protection and whose futures in the US are now uncertain with Trump's decision to phase the program out, leaving them vulnerable to deportation.
"I feel like entire my life is now in jeopardy" Sanchez told BuzzFeed News after the news broke on Tuesday. "I'm about to finish college and am trying to plan what's next and I don't know if I can even be here at this time next year."
Sanchez, like thousands of the dreamer, preparing to graduate from colleges and universities across the US, is in a precarious position. At the brink of starting his career, he face the possibility of being uprooted from a life he's been building and sent back to a country he can hardly remember.
"I don't know anything about Mexico, I cannot act like Mexican, I cannot speak Spanish", and this is because I'm really not. I grew up here.
Sanchez spent his summer as a teaching fellow in the Bronx, helping low-income students with physic and science courses, which he want to do after graduates next May. But with his legel status up in the air, applying to graduate schools and teaching programs will be difficult.
Trump's decision to end DACA throws this colleges dreamer's fate up in the air.
Sanchez has a big plan. He's poised to graduate from university, with honors degree in biomedical science and has been perusing graduate programs at prestigious schools like Harvey college.
The 21-year-old from Enid, wants to teach science to low-income students and has been preparing applications for teaching programs like Teach for America.
But on Tuesday, a potentially huge problem emerged for him.
Sanchez who came to Enid with his parents when he was 3 years old, is one of an estimated 800000 undocumented immigrants who have DACA protection and whose futures in the US are now uncertain with Trump's decision to phase the program out, leaving them vulnerable to deportation.
"I feel like entire my life is now in jeopardy" Sanchez told BuzzFeed News after the news broke on Tuesday. "I'm about to finish college and am trying to plan what's next and I don't know if I can even be here at this time next year."
Sanchez, like thousands of the dreamer, preparing to graduate from colleges and universities across the US, is in a precarious position. At the brink of starting his career, he face the possibility of being uprooted from a life he's been building and sent back to a country he can hardly remember.
"I don't know anything about Mexico, I cannot act like Mexican, I cannot speak Spanish", and this is because I'm really not. I grew up here.
Sanchez spent his summer as a teaching fellow in the Bronx, helping low-income students with physic and science courses, which he want to do after graduates next May. But with his legel status up in the air, applying to graduate schools and teaching programs will be difficult.
"I want to teach science and help advance students to high grades and expanding their knowledge of this universe," he said. "And it's frustrating that I don't know if I will be able to do that here after all the work I've put into it."
Sanchez never told his fellow classmates, close friends, or teachers that he was a DACA recipient. His little sister was born in the US, and he says his extended family has lived in Oklahoma since the 1980s, which is why his parents raised him there. He was also fearful of how people would see him, especially after Trump was elected.
"I haven't told anyone because of the negative views it has. It's scary," he said.
But now wants to come out and share his story to show people "not to be afraid of us because we are not that different." Sanchez is an all-state swimmer. He was a college athlete and a personal tutor. He's participated in student government and is his senior class representative.
"People like me have DACA," he said. "I look and act American, but on paper, I'm not, and that's devastating."
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