As Supreme Court decision looms, undocumented Asians say they must speak up or risk losing DACA
by Anh Do, Los Angeles Times
Dec 02, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Dean Santos arrived in the U.S. from the Philippines when he was 12 and quickly took to American culture. In his teenage years in San Bruno, he played sword and fantasy card games with other kids, watched "South Park" and joined the high school wrestling team.
When he got to college, he became a member of the student government. By the time he was 20, he had begun to help organize young people in the country illegally.
"I taught them how to do lobby visits, how to set up meetings with elected officials, how to tell our stories to make ourselves heard," Santos said.
For Santos, who is now 29, it was personal: He
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