SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento State University is home to one of California’s first resource centers for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) students.
The Dreamers Resource Center has been around for four years. Program Coordinator Erik Ramirez estimates that there are about 700 to 900 undocumented students on the Sac State campus.
“There is no way to know for sure. We serve about 50 students on a week-to-week basis,” said Ramirez.
DACA recipients have been living in uncertainty for some time, but now that the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on President Donald Trump’s decision to end DACA, the fear has become very real.
“Where am I going to be next? What is going to happen to my family?” Israel Flores wondered.
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Flores is a DACA student at Sac State who is about to graduate with a major in communications and minor in History. He says the uncertainty lingers in the back of his mind.
“A lot of people like me came out of the shadows and we have started to go to school and pay our taxes just like regular people. If that [DACA] gets taken away it’s a big slap in the face in a way, because we won’t be able to practice our profession."
Flores says other members of his family are also in the DACA program and the biggest fear for him is that his family would lose their status. Israel says he lives on a day-by-day basis and plans, but not too far ahead.
“In the worst-case scenario, the biggest thing would be self-deportation. I would go somewhere else. If anything, I would look for a place that might accept me for who I am and would let me live in peace,” said Flores.
Flores has been involved with various aspects of university life including being part of student government and serves as vice president of academic affairs.
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