Daca Quotes

“What I saw in Flint was a microcosm of the way the government treats the undocumented everywhere, making the conditions in this country as deadly and toxic and inhumane as possible so that we will self-deport. What I saw in Flint was what I had seen everywhere else, what I had felt in my own poisoned blood and bones. Being killed softly, silently, and with impunity.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“Como tú, I woke up to
this dream of a country I didn't choose, that
didn't choose me--trapped in the nightmare
of its hateful glares.”
― Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country