Undocumented recent UCLA graduate faces deportation hearing

As summer creeps in, students around the nation are graduating from high school and college. For many it’s a time to celebrate, but for some, graduation is a reminder that they are separate and unequal students, simply because of their immigration status. Although people around the world look at the US as a place where hard work will make any dream come true, that's not true for the thousands of youth who came to this nation as children, finished college, but have few rights when it comes to building a life and career in the US. Today, FSRN talks to one of these recent grads. 22 year-old Favi, recently finished her degree in Sociology at UCLA. She remembers crossing the border with her mother when she was just five years old, the same way everyone she knew at that time came to the US…She attended school in Los Angeles, then went on to community college before transferring to UCLA – although because of her immigration status, she didn’t qualify for financial aid or even loans. In addition to studying, exams and research papers, Favi had to keep track of all her family’s immigration court appearances, and even had to do much of the translating for her parent’s attorneys or employers. Aura Bogado caught up with Favi, who graduated one quarter early not only because of the exuberant costs at UCLA for undocumented students – but because she faces a deportation hearing in just a few days.