Have You Heard Of This Exciting Scholarship Helping DREAMers Attend College?
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🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The virtue I Romeo here just wants to help one other person. I do I do and I think it just it it came from |
| 0:07.8 | Like a few weeks ago when I went to go talk at my my former high school and just share my story with these kids |
| 0:14.7 | And I kind of seen them have that hope and like that like it's like you know aspirations to want to grow and like be |
| 0:20.9 | Somebody in their life and things like that in 15 seconds. What is your story? |
| 0:25.7 | My story is that I was brought to this country by my parents where we were escaping pretty much poverty |
| 0:32.8 | Game violence and I was brought here |
| 0:35.5 | Under certain circumstances and I became undocumented in this country and then in 2012 |
| 0:40.9 | Obama started a program that pretty much gave me some sort of protection in this country and |
| 0:46.7 | Because of that I'm able to work. I'm able to go now. I was able to go to school and I'm able to be here |
| 0:51.5 | There's always this as we found out yesterday late in the show. Remember we had a virtual listener call up |
| 0:57.0 | Who was having she's Latino also? Yeah, and she was having some problems with her kids in school |
| 1:02.4 | And she was really nervous to go to the administration because she's part of the doc a program also and she's like if I say anything |
| 1:09.2 | Can they kick me out of the country? |
| 1:10.8 | Now I'm not sure where she's from you're from El Salvador. Yeah. Yeah. That's a fear that we have |
| 1:15.5 | All the time because you know, they always tell us that this program |
| 1:18.7 | Like you know to for you to be eligible for this program. You have to be like clean completely clean |
| 1:23.0 | Like you have to have a nice record like you cannot have a mr. Meiner. I know it's record |
| 1:26.3 | You mean no record exactly |
| 1:27.3 | Like you can have like I think like up to two mr. Meiner's and then they kick you out of the program |
| 1:32.1 | But once you get kicked out like you're pretty much like undocumented again in this country |
| 1:35.5 | And you know you run that risk of being deported and being sent back to your home country with which a lot of us in my |
| 1:42.2 | Situation we were brought to this country as kids |
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