Immigrants react to Trump’s planned immigration raids

By: Katherine Ortega

President Donald Trump planned an immigration raid and revived the fears and worries of immigrants for Sunday, July 14, 2019.

Carlos Ramirez is a 17-year-old DACA recipient who daily worries about living as an immigrant in the U.S. Born in Puebla, Mexico, he was brought to the U.S. at the age of two.

“My mom was scared to send me at first because she thought they would deport me,” Ramirez wrote through text.

Although he is a legal resident, a part of him stills worries.

“What if they find something on me that caused me to lose my status,” Ramirez said, questioning how he’d legitimize his stay in America.

Ramirez’s way of coping with this anxiety is by “encouraging those who were like me or those who have family members who were undocumented to vote.”

From the 40s to present times, the population of immigrant children in the United States grew by 51 percent, according to child trends.

Jose Antonio Landa, 17, also migrated to the U.S. when he was two years old and is undocumented. He was born in Michoacan, Mexico.

Landa said it’s been hard because he wasn’t allowed to use his real name when he first got to the States.

“At first, it was tough because I didn’t know English,” Landa said.

He eventually learned English in the first grade and became fluent. He also graduated high school this past month.

Latinos have low high school graduation rates, college graduation rates and achievement and reading scores, according to NCBI.

Landa goes through his day and hopes for the best. He continues to have a positive mindset. By knowing his rights, he feels confident if ICE were to stop him.

The planned ICE raids have caught the attention of many immigrants but don’t stop some from going on with their daily lives.