51 1 What’s your story? Students and supporters of DACA protest in downtown Los Angeles, California in November, 2019, as the US Supreme Court meets to discuss the future of the children brought into the country illegally. THE REALITY […] I haven’t seen my father since I was eight and only spoken to him on the telephone. He was deported in 2009. The last day I saw him was in a train station. I had no idea why I was saying goodbye … and why everyone was crying. When my friends came over and asked where my father was, I said he was “working”. Every year on my birthday, he calls me, and I try hard not to cry because I know it’s another year of him not being able to see me grow up. My mother is a single mom. Terrified of being deported. Just a couple of weeks ago she was caught. She was driving to work when a police officer pulled her over because she wasn’t wearing her seatbelt. For anyone else, it’s just a ticket. For a single mother who is illegal, it’s “I have to go to court, I have to show identification … They will find out I am illegal. I will be deported … I have to call my lawyer … Who will take care of my daughters?” a ticket – hér: sekt
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