A House Divided By Immigration Status

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🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

All four of the Gonzalez kids grew up under one roof, in Los Angeles, Calif. But when the oldest was in middle school, she realized that she and her siblings might have drastically different lives. That's because she comes from a mixed-status family, where some members are free to work, and others are constrained by the fear of deportation.

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0:00.0	9 million people live in mixed status families in the United States.
0:09.1	We're going to introduce you to three.
0:10.5	The Gonzalez is.
0:12.1	Abigail is undocumented.
0:14.0	I feel like I don't belong anywhere.
0:17.1	Miriam has DACA, which is deferred action for childhood arrivals.
0:20.1	Okay, so are you going to take it away?
0:21.5	Are you going to leave it?
0:22.5	Like what are you going to do?
0:23.7	And Jose Ventura is a US citizen.
0:25.8	There's so much pressure on me.
0:27.9	They're all siblings.
0:28.9	They all live under the same roof.
0:31.4	And one of them is suing the government to stay.
0:37.7	You're listening to Code Switch.
0:38.7	I'm Jean Demby.
0:39.7	And I'm Shereen Marisol Miraji.
0:41.2	I met Abigail Gonzalez while I was doing some reporting in Boyle Heights, which is a
0:45.4	majority Mexican neighborhood here in Los Angeles.
0:48.6	She's an undocumented dreamer.
0:50.3	So she was brought to the US as a baby, but she doesn't have DACA or any other type of
0:54.5	legal documentation.
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