Photos by Karla Gachet kchete77 / “I feel a lot of anger and frustration at the country as a whole. I’ve been working so hard to have a clean record, to prove myself worthy, for what? For a country that doesn’t recognize or want me.” —Jesica Garcia Garcia Jesica, 22, came to the U.S. when she was six years old. Her father left Mexico when she was three and visited the family in Mexico two years later. Her mom gave him three choices then: Go back to the States and forget we exist, come back and live with us, or send for us so we can all live together in the U.S. Her father sent for them a month later. For Jesica, coming to the U.S. was always about reuniting with her dad. She learned English and became an honor student throughout middle and high school. She currently studies sociology with a minor in education at UC Santa Cruz. Jesica had to pack up her belongings and leave the dorms to come back to her parent’s house in Los Angeles when the pandemic hit. Deferred Action for Childho...