{"id":5084891,"date":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/harvard-student-will-drive-4k-miles-so-her-mom-who-is-undocumented-can-see-her-graduation\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:00:00","slug":"harvard-student-will-drive-4k-miles-so-her-mom-who-is-undocumented-can-see-her-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/05\/23\/harvard-student-will-drive-4k-miles-so-her-mom-who-is-undocumented-can-see-her-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Student Will Drive 4K Miles So Her Mom, Who Is Undocumented, Can See Her Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fear made her a good student. As a young child, Norma Torres Mendoza knew deportation could end her life in the United States. “I would tell myself, \u2018You need to get an A on this exam, because this may be the last one you take,'” Norma told Hoy<\/span><\/a>. “I felt that at any moment someone was going to take me back to Mexico, a beautiful country but one that I don\u2019t really know. I walked with this fear, but this fear also gave me the strength to push ahead.”
\nNow at 25, Norma is graduating with a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government. But before she walks down the stage to accept her degree, she\u2019s driving round trip \u2013 approximately 3,600 miles \u2013 between Cambridge and Houston to pick up her mom, Carmen. Norma\u2019s mom is undocumented; therefore, she can\u2019t just fly in for her daughter\u2019s big day. Norma is a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipient, so she\u2019s been able to travel to Mexico to reconnect with her native country.
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\nThe road trip is easy. Getting to this moment hasn\u2019t been. Carmen and Norma crossed the border 16 years ago in search for better opportunities. After the terrifying trip \u2013 when they finally reached Houston \u2013 they couldn\u2019t rest easy because deportation was always a very real possibility. Norma had seen it firsthand.
\nSchool also came with difficulties for Norma. Some of her classmates teased her for bringing tacos for lunch. “They were terrible,” she said. “They laughed at my tacos, saying they smelled bad. So I told my mom that I didn\u2019t want tacos anymore, that I wanted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, because I want to be American now.”
\nBut her schoolwork didn\u2019t suffer, and it eventually led her to…..
\nTo read full article: http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/harvard-grad-undocumented-mom\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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