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Vladimire Is Unafraid

My name is Vladimire and I Am Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic. 7, the lucky number right? No, I think otherwise. That is when my life took an unexpected turn.  I still had a hard life before then, the reason being that my parents shifted apart.  I lived with my mother for the first two years …

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Yessica Is Telling You What Democracy Looks Like

Yessica

This is Yessica’s story: “Acceptance” When I came to the United States, at the age of ten, the last of my worries was the illegality of my presence. I didn’t know about nine-digit identification numbers or that I would cringe at stories of immigrants being deported. Alien meant a little green creature living in outer space, …

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Who I Want To Be

-Brian’s Poem

This is Melissa’s Story

When I emigrated from Colombia to New York at the age of eight to reunite with my mother who had left two years before, I was not cognizant of the extreme burdens that I was going to be facing. Little did I know that I was going to be confronting the crude reality of being …

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