it is scary because if my doctor were to expire and there is no sort of nothing of relief yet implemented you know there is a there's always that possibility that I can be detained and put in deportation proceedings my doc aspires in 2019 February 2019 I think at this point I'm you know I'm worried that what could happen because I know that at any moment that can be taken away and it's not just like also my inspiration they cause it's any day Cinthia taya's is a 25 year old graduate of UWM who was a docker registrant and works with teenagers at the Latino Women's Resource Center of almost a social service agency on the south side I came to the United States when I was 11 I was gonna turn 12 that year we actually came with st. Patrick's Day at the age of two I was able to immigrate ever since then I've been here in Milwaukee have been moved and I'm not sure if I want to move I love the city Daniel Gutierrez is also a daca registrant an eighteen year old who was a freshman at Cardinal Stritch University and attended pius xi Catholic High School in Milwaukee hopefully going into law school and the next in four years from now so it's been it's been difficult there's been definite articles both Cynthia and Daniel have lived in the United States most of their young lives and have been able to work drive legally and attend college with the protection of daca I applied to my Community College in Janesville UW Rock County and at the time I was being scouted by a soccer coach UWI company Cynthia's mother chose to overstay her visa like many migrants and after a brief stay in LA moved to Wisconsin where she worked several jobs to support the young family initially it was because we wanted to come here for a vacation right and then I think mine went by I think I have to go back to class you know I love this but very clearly my mom said you know I think but you know I think we're gonna remain here for the next year or so when we came to from California we established in Beloit I went to middle school there and you know and and eventually after that I went to high school but only for like the first half like the first semester of freshman year because we ended up moving to Janesville on September 5th last year President Trump rescinded the daca program my daca deferred action expires in November of 2018 and I I try not to think of it much but I definitely do you know keep that in mind that there is a deadline I don't let that you know and take away from from my everyday life and something that I learned is that when you're in a movement that needs a lot of energy and you need to take care of yourself daka's will be expiring and it's scary for you know we're in a state of limbo Jason Gonzalez is the director of Christian formation at pius xi catholic high school he mentored a young daniel and watched him grow into a well informed and active proponent of dreamers rights these are kids who were brought here without choosing to be here and and they were brought here for for good reasons they were brought here to be united with their families again they were brought here for a better life and so when they think about like why why is it important for them to to get status here it's because they they deserve it and they're just as American as anybody else Pius held a unity March last fall to bring attention to the school's diverse culture which included daca students no documents are needed to enter their Kingdom walk with us as you find their way Rachele buff is a professor at UWM and the author of against the deportation terror a history of immigrant rights organizing in the United States anyone who persists and makes it to college despite the obstacles that confront you as a first generation you know foreign-born student they tend to be really talented students there's this sort of good immigrant bad immigrant dichotomy like the good kids that came here they didn't mean to their evil parents dragged them across the border wasn't their fault but let's punish the the supposedly evil parents my home is here everything my whole life is here I've I don't know any other country besides the United States of America and when you know the daca was taken away it was it was it felt like a betrayal from the government because they promised us that if we do comply with everything we were gonna be okay and that was not the case unfortunately so you consider yourself American I don't know you know and if you were to ask me do you feel Mexican I don't know you know because it's I was when I introduced myself I treated myself as a Latina I wouldn't mind you know going back to Mexico and you know and visiting my family but I don't think I was staying at Mexico I come from it more from a primarily a religious perspective and being in being in a Catholic school right what I was taught my life and my whole life and what I teach is that we need to accept the stranger we need to welcome the stranger we need to be here for we three of us will avoid lists us humans are very resilient and are very you know we could be scared times especially when we don't know what could happen but we take a leap of faith you know and and just like my mom took the leap of faith coming here it would be my turn you know to take that leap of faith