When she turned 16 a few years ago, a young woman in Arizona thought she had reached the typical teenage milestones of applying for a driver’s licence and gaining more independence.
Instead, she found out that her family had illegally immigrated to the U.S. almost 20 years before — and she was still an undocumented migrant.
“I talked to my mom … and then my sister was like, ‘Yeah, we came when you were like a baby,'” said the woman, who just turned 19.
“That was the first time that I knew I wasn’t … like, normal,” she said. “I always had an idea, but, like, it was never told.”
The CBC is not naming the woman or her family over their fears of being deported. She said they came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was just a year old, but she didn’t feel any impact from her …