Uriel Rivera ’15 Details the Less-than-Paved Road for Undocumented Students
“Where are you from?” seems like such an innocuous question. It’s a question asked to get to know someone or just make small talk. But for undocumented individuals, it’s a heavy question that doesn’t always have an easy answer.
For Uriel Rivera ’15, it’s not easy to give a simple response. As a high schooler, he lived in Los Angeles, but he was born and raised in Mexico before coming to the US in 2006 at age 16. For many other immigrants, the United States is the only home they’ve known, but legally, home is elsewhere.