# @natgeo on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CL7kWbcj-sa
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11685826-natgeo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-02T21:03:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

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 Childhood Arrival (DACA) protects some undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation. President Trump’s attempt to end DACA was blocked by the Supreme Court last year. President Biden signed an executive order to preserve the program. This project was created by kchete77 and ivankphoto with the support of the insidenatgeo COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists. Family photo courtesy of Jesica Garcia. #DACA #Dreamers #HomeIsHere

(1) Jesica (right) and her sister around the time they came to the U.S. (2, 3) Jesica works at a grocery store in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles. (4, 5) Portrait of Jesica at her new home in Los Angeles. (6) One of Jesica’s hobbies is putting together large puzzles. (7, 8) Jesica decorates her new room after moving to a smaller place with her parents to make rent. (9, 10) A baby Jesus sits in the Garcia family’s living room.

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