{"id":9407,"date":"2017-03-01T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:12:13","slug":"watch-the-life-of-an-undocumented-high-school-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2017\/03\/01\/watch-the-life-of-an-undocumented-high-school-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The Life of an Undocumented High-School Senior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/iframe\/516900\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/index\/516900\/the-life-of-an-undocumented-high-school-senior\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ilse Cruz was brought into the United States by her mother when she was 4 years old, and has no memories of her native Mexico. She also doesn\u2019t feel truly American\u2014because she\u2019s undocumented. \u201cAmerican culture and Mexican culture, they&#8217;re both a part of who I am but I can&#8217;t understand either one fully,\u201d she says. As a high school senior, the discouraging realities of Cruz\u2019s legal status have begun to set in: She\u2019s wary of ever leaving the country to visit Mexico, she\u2019s not sure if she can go to college, or apply for federal aid to make it possible. In this short documentary, Ilse, we follow along as Cruz navigates the process of attempting to be in the United States legally. \u201cWhen you&#8217;re not at least a resident, you don&#8217;t get as much opportunities as you could,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to get past college, and knowing that one day my dreams would be cut short because I can&#8217;t do something that I want to do, it just sucks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via the Atlantic Ilse Cruz was brought into the United States by her mother when she was 4 years old, and has no memories of her native Mexico. She also doesn\u2019t feel truly American\u2014because she\u2019s undocumented. \u201cAmerican culture and Mexican culture, they&#8217;re both a part of who I am but I can&#8217;t understand either one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}