When the Trump administration announced its decision to rescind the program known as DACA this week, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants were left in the dark.
One of them was Catalina Velasquez.
Velasquez's family, from Cali, Colombia, fled
the civil war there and sought refuge in the United States, where they
were denied asylum. Though her family was deported, Catalina remained,
and she has since built a life for herself in Washington.
In 2008, she became the first undocumented
transgender person to attend Georgetown, and in 2013, she became the
first transgender immigrant Latina appointed as commissioner for the
D.C. Office of Latino Affairs.
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