Borrowed Time
Yessenia Sontay fits the profile of thousands of American college students: she attends class, thinks about her future career (she wants to be a teacher), and works part-time to pay for university expenses, like tuition and books. But despite her planning, she may have to give it all up next year.
Sontay is one of the nearly 800,000 undocumented people affected by President Trump’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation and allows them to work legally in the country. This week, Sontay, a senior at the University of Utah, met with her mother to map out a plan for the coming months before her permit expires in May 2018.
“We were just kind of strategizing
