Every ignorant and divisive rant from Donald Trump about undocumented immigrants moves hatred forward, and every cruel joke about immigrants “going back to where they came from” deflates the dreams of young people like Zoe. She is a young person like so many others, living in the United States for most of their lives – only to find out they do not have legal documentation.
For her, college workshops in her junior year of high school became painful. Dreams of college and a future ended when a family member told her: “You don’t have papers.”