Political Quotes

“Mr. President, for most of her life Anna Ledesma has been afraid. She was a model student at Centennial High School in Las Vegas, an artist and a member of the Key Club. As one of the top academics of a large high school, she received the Millennium Scholarship to study nursing at the College of Southern Nevada. Now she is studying hard for her nursing exams. But 23-year-old Anna has lived for a long time with the constant fear that she will be deported. She is an undocumented immigrant. She was born in the Philippines and brought here by her parents when she was 7 years old. She was in the second grade. This is what Anna told the Las Vegas Sun newspaper: I would tell myself that they're not going to deport me because I'm a nursing student and I'm working really hard and I want to make a difference in my community . . . [But] all the time, constantly in the back of my head, I think about being deported and having to start over. Thanks to a directive issued last year by President Obama, Anna and 800,000 other young people like her--young people who are American in all but paperwork--won't be deported. President Obama's directive suspended deportation of DREAMers--students brought to America illegally when they were children. These young people share our language, they share our culture, and they share our love for America, which in most cases is the only country they have ever known.…”