Mirna Cabral and her son Damian Cabral stand by a shrine with photos and the ashes of their late husband and father Francisco Cabral at their home on November 25, 2024, in El Paso, Texas
Francois PICARD
Then there is Foday Turay, born in Sierra Leone and brought to America at age seven. He was able to attend public school because it is guaranteed no matter what a person’s migration status is.
Reality set in when he applied for a driver’s license and his mother told him he was undocumented — they had crossed over from Mexico.
“Then I started asking questions like, ‘How? What happened? Tell me how did I come?” said Turay, who is married to an American, has a child and lives near Philadelphia.
Both he and Cabral are so-called “dreamers,” people who benefit from a program launched by Barack Obama in 2012 that protects from deportation undocumented people that arrived in America before the age of 16, among other requirements, and allows them to study and work.
“DACA is my last shield,” said Turay, using the acronym for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
He is an assistant US district attorney in Philadelphia while Cabral is employed in artificial intelligence.
A judge in Texas has halted new applications under the DACA program and declared it illegal, making it harder for Silva to qualify. Without DACA he cannot work. The fate of the program will probably end before the Supreme Court.
“I hope he only focuses on deporting the criminals because America is a land of immigrants,” Turay said of Trump.
Silva and Taylor want to have kids but know it is risky because he could be deported. She said she would go to Mexico to be with him.
In his wallet Silva carries a card with the phone numbers of his family and a lawyer, in case he is arrested.
“What I can do right now is just hope for the best, prepare for the worst,” he said.
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