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struggle4progress

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Fri Sep 8, 2017, 05:44 PM Sep 2017

'I refuse to live in the shadows'

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published 3:36 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2017 | Updated 4:08 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2017

..."You live with it, but you don’t let it paralyze you," said Diana .. a DACA recipient from Poughkeepsie now attending graduate school. "I want to be in this country because I’ve been here all my life and I love this country" ...

"I came out in front of my local courthouse and I declared that I was undocumented and that I refuse to live in fear anymore, that I refuse to live in the shadows," <Moises> said. "The purpose of that was to really try to humanize this issue and put a local face to this national kind of dilemma and this national kind of conversation" ...

"I’m not worried," Sanchez said. "I’ve been worried my whole life, I’ve been scared my whole life that something’s going to happen to me and my family. And I think I should stop worrying so much and keep doing what I’ve always been doing, which is get through whatever it is that I’m going through" ...

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/2017/09/08/ve-been-scared-my-whole-life-daca-dreamers-share-their-stories/638955001/

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