Actor Bambadjan Bamba comes out as undocumented: 'We just can't be scared anymore.'
LOS ANGELES - Bambadjan Bamba has only the fondest memories of growing up in the African country of Cote D'Ivoire. But in 1993, after that nation's first president, Felix Houph-ouet-Boigny, died and it became politically unstable, Bamba's family fled to the United States. At 10, America became his new home.
Twenty-five years later, however, the actor perhaps best known for his recurring role on NBC's "The Good Place" doesn't quite feel like an American. Sure, he's perfected the accent. But since high school, he's carried a secret burden he's ready to reveal: He's undocumented.
Bamba, one of an estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. according to Pew research, told few of his citizenship status - until now.
Motivated by the Trump administration's efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,
