[Music]
I’m a really young age my parents have
always shown me the importance of
education
they told me to given my best to obtain
what I really want in this case a degree
in medicine it’s only to pursue my
passion to helping people to explore my
intellectual curiosity of the human body
and to not forget my roots no matter how
far in life I go but yet when mom didn’t
wake up on the first day of first grader
taken on the bus because she kept on
saying just five more minutes
ironically I’m the West is that not when
I don’t want to go to school and my dad
pretend to forget where my 60 graduation
was but I mean it’s okay because I
pretend to forget when his birthday is
to play it even and we were always late
of school events what we still are
actually I was actually late today so
just so that’s right now my life pretty
much consists the endless workload of
calculus I get from my math teacher dr.
Scholl and many other classes it sucks
but we had to embrace his suck because
that’s what we learned from my dish just
like any other I wake up I go to school
I get good grades they say bye to my
parents get my siblings ready as well I
go to calculus chemistry regret for
wondering why I’ve forecasted her
classes wanted to drop out because I
forecasted for those classes up still
watching Netflix because I’m done
stressing about those classes you know
just typical high school student things
I also talk to my siblings about today
from Big Brother conversation like hey
you shouldn’t be doing this you
shouldn’t be doing that so you mean
little kid talk about like hey have you
heard this new song or have you
downloaded this in your game and we
clean him away from our parents to get
home in what parents care home we talk
to them by our days as flow because
they’re actively involved in our school
for example I’ll be telling them hey I
got into this program hey I got into
that hey I’m going to give a TED talk
I’m almost like what’s that I was like
yo it’s about like a thing where you go
and talk to people and you just like
share your story would like you steal
your things and just recently I got I
told my parents that I was going to get
an internship at the Oregon Health and
Sciences University sequin dog
consciously
over the summer with the mentor which
has been one of my greatest
accomplishments so far and we also go
out when we’re bored we go out to the
park we go out to eat McDonald’s you
know just like regular fast food or
anything else and we also just drive
around overstressed we’re a happy family
a typical family but no one really know
goes on behind closed doors see the
things that I told you were just the
things I wanted you guys to know the
things that you could probably see when
you just look at me like any other
person I didn’t add in the part that I
had to work out that I had to wake up in
the morning to get my slimstrider for
school because my parents have to go to
work early in the morning
I didn’t handed the part that I say bye
to my parents don’t know what they’ll be
back home by dinnertime I didn’t add in
the part that instead of focusing on
calculus or chemistry
I run scenarios in my head all day
thinking of what will I do if what I
fear becomes a reality some teachers
notice that something that’s wrong but
I’ll just shrug it off and be like no
don’t worry about it how everything’s
school just to bring less attention
towards myself and to make myself not
think about it as much I didn’t enter
the part that when we go out for a
session that when we go out now it’s
just for essentials to avoid the ugly
stares coming our way and due to fear
people from our community that had gone
from friendly smiles tears of anger
repulsion and rejection I didn’t hand in
the part that those big brother
conversations that are having my
siblings I gone from don’t be doing this
don’t do that see this is what we will
do if mom and dad doesn’t get and make
it home sing out by dinner I didn’t hand
in the part that we also tried to
minimize our exposure to the outside
world because my six-year-old sister
starts crying and screaming please don’t
take mom or please don’t take that when
we see a police officer because my
six-year-old sister is still too young
to know the difference between the
police officer and them my six-year-old
sister is still too young so you know
that this is a reality we all go through
this on a daily basis just because we’re
if you’re in five million we were all
hated in plain sight it could be your
friend your enemy your best student your
neighbor
probably even the person next to you
right now we’re all just go through this
because we were few in five million I am
one in five million I am the son of a
documented immigrants and no I am NOT
here to write about how unfair this is I
am NOT here to demand something from
each and every one of you I’m just here
to give you a perspective of what we go
through on a daily basis so you know
that that our current situation does not
only rip apart families the sabotage is
the state of our youth of our future
generations of our American citizens
being a child with documented immigrants
affects us emotionally it’s a constant
stress to just bugsy non-stop it hits
you and hit so you just have to take it
there we go from being typical teenagers
from teenagers that go out with friends
explore things try out new things to
then having the legal custody of our
siblings the very next day we go from
planning as a family to planning about
this is what we will do if one of our
parents is are gonna make it home
tonight but don’t get me wrong the
stress is always there but just recently
it’s been trying to break out from the
deepest and darkest corner that we all
have it locked in and according to the
study conducted by the University of
Texas at Austin students with the
documented parents are most likely to
have symptoms symptoms of depression and
anxiety it’s just something that we have
to carry on with and most of us have
figured out a way to just mold it into
pretend like it’s not there but in
reality it is just hitting us and
hitting us in the back of our minds how
can we be the land of the free if this
is the home of the afraid being the
child of a document immigrants affects
us economically see my parents and I
imagine a majority of our parents have
also escaped the countries to not be
engaged with poverty to live in but they
just returned to here due to the current
legal status and it’s not allowance you
obtain a better jobs therefore not being
able to climb wages not being able to
climb benefits not being to do anything
well the majority of my peers parents
are retiring at the age of 60 I will
have to live Bono but my parents were
going to still have to be working
according to a study conducted by Ernie
75% of students of the documented
parents are at or 185 percent below the
federal poverty level this majorly
affects me because I have a father that
works in agriculture and during the fall
season that’s when he gets those hours
so that means less food less money less
motivation less hope but we do get more
things we get more deaths more loans
more payments more stress more
everything just more of the negative
things and what we do to kind of shield
it from our siblings we just pretend
like everything is fine and eat less and
less or so mesquite more and more after
every single loan that my parents get
trying to pay it off my dreams of
becoming a doctor
our father and father away being the
child of a documented immigrants affects
us academically not only does it make it
really hard to pursue a post-secondary
education but the conscious stress and
the nonstop buggin does not let you
concentrate on your studies according to
a study conducted by UCLA students with
the documented parents are most likely
to be high behavioral and learning
problems in addition mothers are
undocumented are less likely to enroll
their child into a preschool due to fear
of deportation
therefore setting a knowledge of
vocabulary gap these kids go to school
not knowing a single drop of English and
that was one of them as well when I
started kindergarten how I know anything
and it was a scary experience I was
having to emerge myself a new culture
and a new language and ironically it’s
the place where I live I since I was one
of those kids
I imagine probably someone this room was
one of them as well so they could
probably relate to what I’m saying but
now I used to live in fear once I used
to believe that remaining quiet was the
best way to solve things but then
reality struck just a few months ago one
of my best friends had gone through all
the situation he was ripped apart from
his parents especially his dad
seeing my friend my brother go through
his current situation was really taxing
because I was learning how can our own
country do this to me how can our
country do this to him how can the
country that I am willing to fight for
do this to the people that we all care
about but something that I learned with
that situation was that no matter how
hard you fall you have to pick yourself
back up and help everyone around you you
got to get up and help those who are
still falling because if you don’t if
you can’t stand up then who’s going to
help everyone around but now imagine if
we live in a society where people didn’t
judge or discriminate or just stereotype
based on skin color ethnicity sexual
orientation religion legal status the
list goes on if you want to know we’re
going to have to learn how to care we’re
going to have to learn how to be
considerate how to be compatible with
each other how to assert our differences
we have to learn that we have to give
the same amount of respect that we
desire we have to learn how to love each
other despite our differences but like I
said I’m just wondering five million one
of the five million students that wants
to pursue their dreams and keep their
family together thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
I’m a really young age my parents have
always shown me the importance of
education
they told me to given my best to obtain
what I really want in this case a degree
in medicine it’s only to pursue my
passion to helping people to explore my
intellectual curiosity of the human body
and to not forget my roots no matter how
far in life I go but yet when mom didn’t
wake up on the first day of first grader
taken on the bus because she kept on
saying just five more minutes
ironically I’m the West is that not when
I don’t want to go to school and my dad
pretend to forget where my 60 graduation
was but I mean it’s okay because I
pretend to forget when his birthday is
to play it even and we were always late
of school events what we still are
actually I was actually late today so
just so that’s right now my life pretty
much consists the endless workload of
calculus I get from my math teacher dr.
Scholl and many other classes it sucks
but we had to embrace his suck because
that’s what we learned from my dish just
like any other I wake up I go to school
I get good grades they say bye to my
parents get my siblings ready as well I
go to calculus chemistry regret for
wondering why I’ve forecasted her
classes wanted to drop out because I
forecasted for those classes up still
watching Netflix because I’m done
stressing about those classes you know
just typical high school student things
I also talk to my siblings about today
from Big Brother conversation like hey
you shouldn’t be doing this you
shouldn’t be doing that so you mean
little kid talk about like hey have you
heard this new song or have you
downloaded this in your game and we
clean him away from our parents to get
home in what parents care home we talk
to them by our days as flow because
they’re actively involved in our school
for example I’ll be telling them hey I
got into this program hey I got into
that hey I’m going to give a TED talk
I’m almost like what’s that I was like
yo it’s about like a thing where you go
and talk to people and you just like
share your story would like you steal
your things and just recently I got I
told my parents that I was going to get
an internship at the Oregon Health and
Sciences University sequin dog
consciously
over the summer with the mentor which
has been one of my greatest
accomplishments so far and we also go
out when we’re bored we go out to the
park we go out to eat McDonald’s you
know just like regular fast food or
anything else and we also just drive
around overstressed we’re a happy family
a typical family but no one really know
goes on behind closed doors see the
things that I told you were just the
things I wanted you guys to know the
things that you could probably see when
you just look at me like any other
person I didn’t add in the part that I
had to work out that I had to wake up in
the morning to get my slimstrider for
school because my parents have to go to
work early in the morning
I didn’t handed the part that I say bye
to my parents don’t know what they’ll be
back home by dinnertime I didn’t add in
the part that instead of focusing on
calculus or chemistry
I run scenarios in my head all day
thinking of what will I do if what I
fear becomes a reality some teachers
notice that something that’s wrong but
I’ll just shrug it off and be like no
don’t worry about it how everything’s
school just to bring less attention
towards myself and to make myself not
think about it as much I didn’t enter
the part that when we go out for a
session that when we go out now it’s
just for essentials to avoid the ugly
stares coming our way and due to fear
people from our community that had gone
from friendly smiles tears of anger
repulsion and rejection I didn’t hand in
the part that those big brother
conversations that are having my
siblings I gone from don’t be doing this
don’t do that see this is what we will
do if mom and dad doesn’t get and make
it home sing out by dinner I didn’t hand
in the part that we also tried to
minimize our exposure to the outside
world because my six-year-old sister
starts crying and screaming please don’t
take mom or please don’t take that when
we see a police officer because my
six-year-old sister is still too young
to know the difference between the
police officer and them my six-year-old
sister is still too young so you know
that this is a reality we all go through
this on a daily basis just because we’re
if you’re in five million we were all
hated in plain sight it could be your
friend your enemy your best student your
neighbor
probably even the person next to you
right now we’re all just go through this
because we were few in five million I am
one in five million I am the son of a
documented immigrants and no I am NOT
here to write about how unfair this is I
am NOT here to demand something from
each and every one of you I’m just here
to give you a perspective of what we go
through on a daily basis so you know
that that our current situation does not
only rip apart families the sabotage is
the state of our youth of our future
generations of our American citizens
being a child with documented immigrants
affects us emotionally it’s a constant
stress to just bugsy non-stop it hits
you and hit so you just have to take it
there we go from being typical teenagers
from teenagers that go out with friends
explore things try out new things to
then having the legal custody of our
siblings the very next day we go from
planning as a family to planning about
this is what we will do if one of our
parents is are gonna make it home
tonight but don’t get me wrong the
stress is always there but just recently
it’s been trying to break out from the
deepest and darkest corner that we all
have it locked in and according to the
study conducted by the University of
Texas at Austin students with the
documented parents are most likely to
have symptoms symptoms of depression and
anxiety it’s just something that we have
to carry on with and most of us have
figured out a way to just mold it into
pretend like it’s not there but in
reality it is just hitting us and
hitting us in the back of our minds how
can we be the land of the free if this
is the home of the afraid being the
child of a document immigrants affects
us economically see my parents and I
imagine a majority of our parents have
also escaped the countries to not be
engaged with poverty to live in but they
just returned to here due to the current
legal status and it’s not allowance you
obtain a better jobs therefore not being
able to climb wages not being able to
climb benefits not being to do anything
well the majority of my peers parents
are retiring at the age of 60 I will
have to live Bono but my parents were
going to still have to be working
according to a study conducted by Ernie
75% of students of the documented
parents are at or 185 percent below the
federal poverty level this majorly
affects me because I have a father that
works in agriculture and during the fall
season that’s when he gets those hours
so that means less food less money less
motivation less hope but we do get more
things we get more deaths more loans
more payments more stress more
everything just more of the negative
things and what we do to kind of shield
it from our siblings we just pretend
like everything is fine and eat less and
less or so mesquite more and more after
every single loan that my parents get
trying to pay it off my dreams of
becoming a doctor
our father and father away being the
child of a documented immigrants affects
us academically not only does it make it
really hard to pursue a post-secondary
education but the conscious stress and
the nonstop buggin does not let you
concentrate on your studies according to
a study conducted by UCLA students with
the documented parents are most likely
to be high behavioral and learning
problems in addition mothers are
undocumented are less likely to enroll
their child into a preschool due to fear
of deportation
therefore setting a knowledge of
vocabulary gap these kids go to school
not knowing a single drop of English and
that was one of them as well when I
started kindergarten how I know anything
and it was a scary experience I was
having to emerge myself a new culture
and a new language and ironically it’s
the place where I live I since I was one
of those kids
I imagine probably someone this room was
one of them as well so they could
probably relate to what I’m saying but
now I used to live in fear once I used
to believe that remaining quiet was the
best way to solve things but then
reality struck just a few months ago one
of my best friends had gone through all
the situation he was ripped apart from
his parents especially his dad
seeing my friend my brother go through
his current situation was really taxing
because I was learning how can our own
country do this to me how can our
country do this to him how can the
country that I am willing to fight for
do this to the people that we all care
about but something that I learned with
that situation was that no matter how
hard you fall you have to pick yourself
back up and help everyone around you you
got to get up and help those who are
still falling because if you don’t if
you can’t stand up then who’s going to
help everyone around but now imagine if
we live in a society where people didn’t
judge or discriminate or just stereotype
based on skin color ethnicity sexual
orientation religion legal status the
list goes on if you want to know we’re
going to have to learn how to care we’re
going to have to learn how to be
considerate how to be compatible with
each other how to assert our differences
we have to learn that we have to give
the same amount of respect that we
desire we have to learn how to love each
other despite our differences but like I
said I’m just wondering five million one
of the five million students that wants
to pursue their dreams and keep their
family together thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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