TEXAS: For almost 20 years, Valeria Serna has lived only a six-hour drive away from her prolonged household in northern Mexico.
However not as soon as has she gone house to go to them.
When she was eight years outdated, her mom took her illegally throughout the border to the USA. Serna mentioned she lived in concern every single day of being found within the nation undocumented.
At age 18, she lastly obtained some semblance of stability.
She was granted safety underneath the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme – a federal scheme that enables sure undocumented immigrants delivered to the US as kids to dwell and work within the nation with out the concern of deportation.
“It sort of made me really feel like I might lastly name this place house – like in addition they accepted me. It gave me a way of confidence,” she informed CNA.
Now, nonetheless, new fears have emerged.
Donald Trump, who shall be sworn in as the subsequent US president subsequent week, has vowed to make instant and sweeping modifications on day one, together with initiating the biggest mass deportation in American historical past.
COULD TRUMP USE THE MILITARY?
Whereas particulars of Trump’s plan stay scant, he has threatened to mobilise the US army to assist take away as much as 11 million people who find themselves within the nation illegally.
It stays uncommon for US troops to be deployed domestically, however it isn’t unparalleled.
