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National Pacemaker winner | Volume 71, Number 6 | December 6, 2016

Undocumented students in limbo By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times Many students ar e anxiously watching the calendar. Appr oximately 742,000 undocumented college students and alumni nationwide r eceived tempor ar y immigr ation r elief, pr otecting them fr om depor tation. The year 2012 was a good one for these students, who began to apply for that status, known as Defer r ed Action for Childhood Arr ivals (DACA). The two- year, r enewable pr ogr am enabled students to go to college, wor k and even tr avel ? legally. Next year is the polar opposite. Pr esident- elect Donald Tr ump will take office on Jan. 20 and has said he will begin to keep the pr omises he made dur ing his campaign. One was to depor t undocumented immigr ants. Another was to vacate many of Pr esident Obama's executive or der s, including DACA. ?Anxiety,? ?fear ? and ?hopelessness? ar e some of the wor ds voiced by DACA students on campus to expr ess how they feel. Some ar e taking mor e extr eme measur es. ?I ?ve hear d of people alr eady leaving for Mexico,? said Mitzi

L izar r aga, 22, a liber al ar ts major at City College. L izar r aga and her sister ar e both DACA students. She was emotional dur ing an inter view at the Pr ice Scholar ship Pr ogr am office. She str uggled to hold back her tear s as she questioned, ?Ar e my (paper s) going to expir e and will they let me r enew them?? On Dec. 13 L izar r aga has an impor tant appointment, though she would not say with whom. She said that if the meeting goes well she will be one step closer to obtaining her U.S. r esidency. ?Anything can happen,? L izar r aga said. ?Tr ump can decide to take ever ything we?ve gotten so far.? Mar co L una, 18, said that he always took Tr ump?s thr eats r egar ding ?illegal immigr ants? ser iously and blames social media for conditioning his peer s to think other wise. L una came into the U.S. when he was 8 year s old. He was or iginally fr om Atizapรกn de Zar agoza, appr oximately 10 miles nor th of Mexico City. On Nov. 8 he watched the election r esults. ?When Tr ump was going to win See LIMBOon page 10

Inawalkout onNov. 16, City Collegeandhigh-school studentsprotested President-elect DonaldTrump' promisetodeport undocumentedimmigrants., amongother campaignpledges. CELIAJIMENEZ City Times

Student injured in arrest By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times

Homelessstudent RoyceGreenprotestshistreatment by policeoncampusashe struggles tofinishhislast classtotransfer toauniversity.. MIKEMADRIAGA City Times

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The cement is his bed. The stair case an umbr ella. The double-paned glass ar e mir r or s to check his dr eadlocks when the str eet lights ar e lit, which also illuminates his handwr itten Peace 101 notes. He wear s leather steel- toe boots and thick socks to help keep his feet war m and a blue color ed hoodie to block the wind when he spar ks up a cigar ette.

?Out ther e is one thing, in her e (school) is something else,? said Royce Allen Gr een, 52. One a r ecent Monday he said that he slept in the r ain by the same spot wher e he pr otested on C and 15th str eets days befor e. The next mor ning, he got dr ied off and went to class ? no one suspected anything. ?I ?ve got one mor e class befor e I can to tr ansfer to the univer sity,? Gr een said, ?I t?s Ar ab

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101 (fir st cour se in Ar abic) and I need a C.? After he gr aduated fr om City College in May r eceiving an AA degr ee with honor s, he visited his family in Tennessee. He r etur ned to San Diego and eventually lost his spot at the St. See INJUREDon page 11


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