DREAMing of America
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holy Ana Perez cadge a was filling out a routine P s A T form in high school. When she came to the part where it asked for her social security number, Juliana wasn't sure what hers Waas. So she asked her mother Hey, Mom, can you just let me know? What's my Social Security? She's like, you don't have one. I was like, Oh, my God. Like hello. Like I'm a top student like I wanna I need to get into college. I need to take these exams. I thought that I couldn't take the exam. Then I found out that you could leave it blank. But starting that day, like my life completely changed. Juliana was 16 and that was the day she found out that she is an undocumented immigrant. That's the age when you become so much more independent, you know, you learn, you know you got your driver's license, you learn how to drive or you take these exams. That s a T. S. You enroll for financial aid to go to school. And that's when I just started getting all of these barriers. Juliana came from Colombia to the U. S. With her mother when she was five. Life has been a Siris of hurdles for her, but despite being an undocumented immigrant, she managed to graduate from stoning for college. But then came the biggest hurdle. Trying to find a job with no legal paperwork. I don't have money to pay a lawyer or anything. Neither do you know any undocumented students who do qualify for deferred action. Then who? Liana found the New York Legal Assistance Group, or Nile AG, and non profit that provides free legal services arena. Marchenko is the director of the Immigration Protection Unit. At nine Leg. She came to the U. S. As a Russian refugee herself and says the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the U. S need someone to turn Thio, it stated, because it always needs for legal, is it? And now it's one of the largest provider or free legal services in New York. NY legs been especially busy after the deferred action announcement that President Obama made in June. That move means that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer initiate the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the U. S. Before the age of 16 have lived here for a least five years are high school graduates or our military veterans in good standing. The immigrants must also be 30 years old or younger, with no criminal record. Meet a patella, senior attorney and I like, says the move is a big step. This is huge because it allows young people who were previously in the shadows afraid to come out afraid to actually get an apply for jobs in their field. This would actually allow those folks to obtain jobs legally in the fields for which they have studied. Part of the work that NYLite does is to help those who qualify for deferred action. No that they qualify Merit Brain Bomb Nylex, director of development, says the group has mobile legal help centers that go into immigrant communities. There are a lot of isolated communities in New York. People tend to be distrustful of services outside of their community. The vehicle is like a giant billboard for freeze of illegal services. Deferred action can temporarily benefit more than 800,000 young people in the U. S. But Juliana Perez Kadji understands it is not a path to a green card or citizenship, because when you're undocumented, you can't ever have. You need to dream big, but you can't like. You have to understand that things aren't always grounded or solid because anything can happen. So for now, I'm just taking it one step at a time. The next step that Niall AG and many undocumented immigrants air hoping for is that Congress passes the controversial and much debated dream Act under which they could become legal permanent residents. Sana Big Colombia Radio news.