Roused by threat, 'Dreamers' rally
LOS ANGELES - Bryan Pena's parents led a life in the margins.
They were immigrants living illegally in Los Angeles' Lincoln Heights neighborhood, having made the trek from Guatemala when their son was small enough to be carried on their backs.
His father found work refinishing cars, and his mother cleaned homes. Both carefully guarded their past.
Pena, however, attended a social justice-themed high school, explored interests in basketball, film and cooking, and recently began studying nursing at California State University, Los Angeles.
The 18-year-old is forthright about his status as a so-called Dreamer, once even telling his own story to a crowd at an immigration rally.
Despite President Donald Trump's removal of the shield that has protected 800,000 Dreamers from deportation, Pena refuses to suddenly slink into the shadows. Instead, he plans to get louder, more public, more emphatic about his
