Immigrant in the US anxiously awaits Supreme Court decision

Alejandra Gonzalez is youth organizing director for immigrant rights group Voces at De La Frontera and she's enrolled in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. She just gruated from college and wanted to help immigrants, because she knew how helpless she felt in high school kwing gruating meant learning to navigate life without papers.

"I don't want children our country to go through that," she said. "I don't. I want to be able to give m resources and platform to feel like y do have power because y do."

She's been shielded from deportation and allowed to legally work in U.S. under Obama-era program. Her parents brought her to U.S. at of 5 from Mexico.

She is w anxiously awaiting U.S. Supreme Court to release a decision on President Donald Trump's attempt to end protections. high court heard arguments last fall and typically releases rulings on Mondays in spring. But it's unclear exactly when an answer will come because court sometimes issues decisions on or days as work wraps up for summer.

She says she's afraid of being deported in front of her boyfriend's kids. She says she won't be able to legally own her car anymore, even though she just paid it off.

"I worked really hard to earn my degree and … t that it would lose its value, but it would lose its purpose, right? That's whole purpose of having a degree, is to gain a job. And I wouldn't be able to do that."

She's t optimistic on ir decision.

"I kw that people are going to keep fighting and I kw that you won't be able to like, you won't be able to shut our light out," she said. "… Maybe we'll just really start taking bigger actions for that change that we want to see."

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