Local DACA recipient speaks out

Two days after President Trump announced the decision to end DACA, recipients on the Central Coast are sharing their concern.

Anahi Alcibar, an after school program director in Salinas, says DACA has changed her life. She has been able to attend UCSC and is now working towards becoming a professor. She fears after DACA is gone she might not be able to fulfill that dream in America.

Alcibar says, she was brought to the U.S. when she was 10-years-old. She is hopeful that Congress will find a solution for both the Dreamers and others that did not qualify for DACA. She wants the students she works with now to be able to follow their dreams and have the same opportunity she has had.

Alcibar said, “It makes me sad to think they won’t have the opportunity to pursue their dreams or even careers. That they’ll have to work extra hard, harder than they’re working now.”

She also has a message to the children “I would want them to know when they grow up and they have the privilege of voting or being U.S. Congress Representatives or leaders in our community, that they have the power to change lives.”