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Hello and welcome to the media centers
ninth Local Hero award series in which we

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showcase five people from the mid
Peninsula for outstanding achievement or

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contribution to the community we solicited
nominations and we're especially looking

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for the unsung heroes each winner
is an inspiration and each has

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a great story to tell.

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There are an estimated eleven million
undocumented immigrants living in this

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country and over half are from Mexico
the most vulnerable among them are the

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children without a home
friends extended family even

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a comprehensible language their arrive
completely dependent on foreign people and

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institutions of which they have little
understanding and even less. So it's no

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surprise that less than five percent of
them ever go to college. But Kenny Amaranth

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arrived undocumented at the age of
nine is now a sophomore at U.C.

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Santa Cruz and she is thriving
Ken here has triumphed over

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a host of challenges each
of which could destroy

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a life can you have there are
so many undocumented Mexican

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immigrants in this country I think it's
easy for us to just say they all have the

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same story but of course
that's not true each one has

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a distinct personal story and I want to
talk about yours. So let's stay let's go

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back to the beginning
your own little girl in

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a home with the with your mom your dad
your little brother about age nine in

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a village in Mexico what was that like well
like grew up in Mexico as you mentioned

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. It became really hard as we were growing
up since my dad he became really abusive

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and he we went through

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a lot of domestic violence with my mom
and. It was just really difficult to deal

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with him in like the whole situation so
she decided to divorce him and this was

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I was about like eight years old when
this happened. So he became really like

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obsessive with like trying to figure out
where she was like after the divorce and

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like what she was doing and like it was
mainly about her it wasn't like about you

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know his children which is me and my brother
but so he was like following us around

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at some point so like I don't know see
what she was up to so she became really

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afraid of like being followed by him and
like I don't know he was like. Being you

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know he was being

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a Fokker pretty much so she decided that
it was better for us to leave the country

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and to separate from him since he was very
abusive and she wasn't sure like what he

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was capable of doing. In the future like
you know maybe like he would harm her like

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not so much like I feel like more towards
my mom like the hatred built towards her

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did you grow up with a
tremendous amount of fear as

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a result yet times I was just more afraid
of my mom's life like not not so much of

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mine but like I was always like on the
lookout to see like what he was doing to her

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and like what you know I was just afraid
that something would happen to her since

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like I grew up you know like witnessing
like him you know beating her at times and

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I woke up in the middle and I like to
scream like screaming and you know my mom

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crying at times I remember one time I
actually jumped on his back and was like just

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yelling stop like you know you can't do
this and he was just like he was kind of

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like psychologically like just wrong like
he would tell me like oh everything's

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fine everything's fine but I obviously
knew it wasn't so it was just you know it

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was very scary at times. Tell me about
the trip and what you were expecting

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and what did yeah well she she decided
to just leave and that was like

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really I don't know where I mean I was
eight years old I didn't really understand

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what leaving was. So you know leaving my
friends my family like everything I had

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like I had there it was like really difficult
I didn't want to leave I was like No

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way where we going like I don't want to
go anywhere like this is my life so you

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know she's the adult so she has to make
the decision to go so I had no say my

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brother didn't either he was you know only
like four years old I believe and so we

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left we left Mexico and when I didn't even
know like you know what it could go to

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you was it like how
quote you know crossing

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a border it would be like I know I never
heard about it I didn't even know there

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was like another place beside Mexico since
that's like all I ever experienced or

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like lived in so getting to the border
like I you know I didn't understand like I

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mentioned So it turns out like we had
to like go under the the wall and like

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crawl through there like try to lay run
across but like we didn't really succeed

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because like right away immigration like
came down like caught us so it was really

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like I don't know like traumatic to like
be able to like be held by like cops or

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like you know because they're technically
police so they're patrolling the area and

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stuff and it was like really
difficult feel like feel like

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a criminal it was like not like

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a criminal like I'm just you know I don't
know what we're doing like I didn't I

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wasn't even sure what what was happening
like I didn't I was illegal to even cross

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so. While we were detained we were
detained by the. The border patrol

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and we actually were released back to Mexico
at one point and we try to cross again

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to finally you know make it but we didn't
we failed again and we got caught and we

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turned out to have to go to

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a detention center in Pennsylvania so we
were detained there for about like three

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and a half months and
it's pretty much like

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a prison it's like you're you're incarcerated
you're not allowed to go outside

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unless like they give you set time so
like you have to have breakfast at

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a certain time you have to have lunch at

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a certain time you have to like if they
allow do you got to go outside in like play

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has to be like whatever whenever they say
or whenever the time is like correct and

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so it was very like traumatic it was like
What am I doing like I don't know where I

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am like where is my family like Who are
we here with we have nobody like although

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we did we had some family
members here in the U.S.

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But you know I never I never met them
like I don't know like it was just very

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difficult to think of my life outside of
Mexico and so we got released from the

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detention center and pretty much
it was like it was weird because

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a the Border Patrol guy he just
pretty much dropped us off at a at

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a train station or bus station the Greyhound
station and he was like get I go home

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you can go ahead and leave and I was like
OK like we don't know English we're stuck

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in the bus station like how do we buy
tickets. We don't really know how dollars

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work so it was really it was really hard
and apparently my mom asked someone to

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like translate for her and I get the tickets
to California so we traveled. In the

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bus for like four days from Pennsylvania
all the way to California to meet up with

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like one of our uncles who was like the
person who was going to take care of us

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because immigration needed like with

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a migration case the thing is that you
have to have someone who is legally in the

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U.S. Still a U.S.

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Citizen to respond for you and like take
care of you take you into their home and

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like you know. Be responsible for you while
you're hearing you have your case so we

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had to go with my uncle who you know is

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a US citizen here and so getting here
was just very difficult like. From

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there from my uncle says we actually
that was in the early so from L.A.

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We moved to Milpark And you know
we started school there and

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everything we had to get like all the
necessary Schaub's and like all that stuff

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and then the soonest I started it was like
even more difficult now because it was

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like with kids my age who like had

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a grown up here pretty much their whole
life was you know already here they knew

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English they you know they were just going
about their days in school and like just

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like every other Middle School or so.
Yeah I started school in like it

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started like I realize that kids started
making fun of me because of my acts there

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because I didn't speak English like some
of them didn't want to be my friend

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because they and I felt like they felt
like they didn't I didn't belong with them

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or like things like that and I was just
really shocked to see like all the

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negativity like thrown at me because I was
like not used to that I was like used to

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kids like you know wanting to be around me
like things like that in Mexico because

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you know I already knew them since we grew
up together. So you have like they don't

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want to like be my friend or anything and
it was really depressing at times I like

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I remember going home and like crying to
my mom and saying like I don't want to

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come back to school like I don't want to
be there it's really hard like they don't

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like me and like it was just hard so what
did you do to overcome that what was the

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key the key was for me it was
learning English I think that was

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a like my thing I had to succeed I had to
learn it so that I you know could fit in

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with all the students that like I was
unable to talk to before because of my

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language barrier so. I just took
it upon myself and I like. I

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started learning like you know hanging
out with other students who also spoke

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Spanish and like where they were they
started teaching me about it so they were

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like telling me things that I should say
or shouldn't say like that's still the way

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I learned like it wasn't so much like through
school it was like it was on me like

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every little thing I would watch every
little thing that I said so that I would say

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or write. I remember one time during slake
sixth grade I remember saying lunch

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wrong and then kids just started laughing
so I remember like that's one of the

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things that always made me want to like do
it better and I pronounce better because

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they since they started laughing I was
like No I have to get this word great I

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would use

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a lunch I said I'd like to launch something
in. The lunch like girl and so we

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launched and I remember they started making
fun of me so I was like now I have to

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like perfect everything I say so that
it doesn't sound with an accent or like

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doesn't sound wrong or it's not wrong. You
know to what extent were you motivated

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by taking care of your family your mother
and your little brother. Well yeah like

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my family was like all I had here and I
think that motivated me to want to you know

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pursue

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a higher education and I get better at
everything so that I could help them out in

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the way I could raise my brother and I
could teach him to be ways that you know

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that I didn't know how to handle before
like teach him things that I didn't know or

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like teach my mom like even teach my mom
English like she can drive and you know

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her job and do better for us as well did
you ever feel that you know weird sort of

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way you were the parent who was responsible
for the family because you're English

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yes times I times I felt like my mom
actually when we go to stores or stuff she

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would like tell me can
you translate for me or

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a king do this for me and I felt like the
weight on me all the time I was like I

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don't want to do it like I'm embarrassed
this well like I don't want to go up to

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someone and speak to them because you
know I don't know that's just me like I'm

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a little embarrassed sometimes so she would
always tell me like oh translator go S.

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This or go as that and I was like you know
like I don't want to but it was always

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like everything was rely on me like because
of my English at times you know when

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you look at the kind of life you were
living then compared with the kind of life

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that you do you didn't want to leave in
Mecca in Mexico how was it different from

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what you might have. It's very different
like when I look at it now I don't want to

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go back to Mexico which is weird because I
didn't want to come here to begin with I

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feel like my life is here now I feel like
I most of my life I grew up here now like

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yeah like in Mexico you know I had like

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a little bit like friends and like all
these things and I grew up with them but

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it's not the same as like living your
teenage years here I feel like you're young

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you know when you're five and younger like
I feel you don't experience as much as

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you doing in your teenage years and you
know. You were drawn to you cause to

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activism Yes where did that come from what
was the appeal for you Well one of my

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friends from middle school was actually
involved in you before I became involved

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and I was hesitant to go because I was

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a little shy sometimes so I think it was
the summer of my freshman year I decided

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that I should go and I went
because I actually needed

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a job to help my mom like with bills and
like all that stuff I was only like

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sixteen years old at the time but you know
I I felt the need to like help her with

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. You know bills and all that so I went
and I like just just to check it out for

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you know for

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a few months and like see if I liked it or
not and I fell in love I literally fell

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in love while you could you know like all
the work that they were doing like spoke

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a lot to me they worked on immigration
issues they were working on housing issues

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they were working on for the community and
like with people that I could connect to

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so when I first started like working
I feel like I think we went to

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a rally we went to

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a rally and I was like wow like this is
like so much fun like you know you get to

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protest and like speak up for people like
things that I had never seen before so

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it's like wow like this is
amazing like I want to be

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a part of this like I'm actually interested
like I want to stay like I relate to

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a one because of my immigration status and
we were working on immigration issues so

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that was one of the things that kept me
there so what do you most want to give to

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the people that you're working for and what
do you think they most need I feel like

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they just need people to get involved I
feel like that's what the organization is

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like mainly about people to know about
you know their situation know about like

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where they live the history and like learn
how to advocate for themselves. I think

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that's

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a big part of the organization like learning
how to advocate for yourself and for

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your community and like not so focused
on you but like looking at the bigger

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picture and looking at like how it affects
not only your family or like you know

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your community but like everywhere in the
country like how it affects people like

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you what would you like to tell
most. Residents who are not

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immigrants non-immigrants whatever the word
is. About the immigrant community what

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do the rest of us not understand I feel
like most people don't understand that

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we're not criminals I
feel like most people

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a lot of times you know media
or whatever it is has like done

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a good job and like for training
immigrants or undocumented people in

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a certain light and like putting them in
ice criminals or like even the government

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like you know calling
them aliens which is like

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a word that I don't know I'm not OK with
I feel like very you know it's just it's

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not OK with me like I feel like it's very
discriminating against like the immigrant

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community. One because you know alien is
just not the word to use it's called You

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know they're undocumented and they're not
here because they're criminals like they

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didn't you know they did something wrong
for crossing the border because it's

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illegal here but like it's not like they
did you know they killed someone or they

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did something like that so I feel like
most of the time I felt targeted because

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like I felt like criminalized I felt like
I did something wrong but in reality like

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crossing the border was like not
as bad as like you know killing

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a person or something like that so what's
been the hardest part for you and what

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has made you stronger. The hardest part for
me I think was like assimilating to the

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whole you know us. Situation I don't
know like I feel like it was really hard

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to. Adjust to the language the you know
the culture it was very different for me

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and you know I think it's easy to say
that it's not as difficult if you like

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put everything to it it's like all your
heart and like you know like if you put all

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your. Like well I'm just sick of how

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the you may have been strengthened
by this I think I became so

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strong through it because I like taught me

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a lot like with all my failures you know
not being able to speak English like it

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just made me want to do more for myself
and like you know my family to begin with

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but then when I first when I started doing
you I realize that it wasn't just about

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me or my family like it was about like
everybody else was like out there and is

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struggling or did struggle to learn English
or to like you know I just to this

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country like in general when you look at
what your mother did do you now go back

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and have tremendous respect for her yes I
do I respect my mother in law I feel like

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if it weren't for her like if she would
have made that decision like I wouldn't be

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where I am right now going back to you
Kyra and the fact you are now successful

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university student one of the few are you
hoping eventually to go back to that life

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back to activism and what
your goal yes actually going

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into school I thought you know I'm going
to major in politics and you know do

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a lot with that so that I can create change
in my community but I feel like I've

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wasn't really meant for that I feel like
I was meant for doing the groundwork to

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doing like community organizing and doing
all that so I'm going to start taking

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classes that revolve around that community
studies and you know learning more about

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like how to advocate for the community
and possibly one day work in that again.

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Well best of luck in that you thank you
very much for coming I'm very glad you're

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in this country and congratulations on
your word thank you so much do you know

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someone who has overcome significant
hardship and has an inspiring story to tell

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someone who has sacrificed or given over
and above to the community and deserves

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some recognition If so please contact us
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