Applying for college aid has become more stressful for some students, who now fear “outing” their parents who are not on financial aid forms, as President-elect Donald Trump has pledged. Mass deportationsaccording to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
“Why does Trump’s election mean that I might suffer as a citizen because of my parents’ choice to move to a better life in America?” A high school student, whose father illegally immigrated to the United States from Guatemala 28 years ago, He told the newspaper.
According to the report, the teen and her father recently visited college counselor Linda McGee. Her father wanted McGee to help the student fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the form known as FAFSA, which schools use to calculate Pell Grants, federal loans and other financial aid for students.
But the application calls for parents' Social Security numbers, and students and counselors fear losing entry will raise questions about immigration status.
“Unfortunately, I have dozens of students in the same situation,” McGee told the Los Angeles Times. “They have to choose between their future and their parents’ future.”
High school seniors whose parents are in the country illegally worry that a question about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid could raise red flags about their parents' immigration status. (Jenna Watson/IndyStar via Imagen Content Services, LLC)
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About 5.1 million U.S. citizen children live with an undocumented family member, according to a report American Immigration Councila pro-immigration group.
Trump said he was prepared to declare a national emergency and possibly use military assets as part of a mass deportation effort. While the president says removing illegal immigrants who have committed crimes is the priority, his administration is prepared to take in law-abiding immigrants next.
Despite the guidelines from Department of Education It states that Social Security data is not shared for any purpose other than determining and awarding financial aid, and college counselors and student advocacy groups warn students from “mixed-status families” that there is still a risk.
the National College Achievement NetworkThe nonprofit student advocacy group said it “cannot assure students and families with mixed status” that FAFSA data will continue to be protected “in light of the priorities publicly outlined by the incoming administration.”
Donald Trump speaks with NBC News host Kristen Welker in his first interview since winning the election. (Screenshot/NBC)
“It's a really stressful process navigating how to go to college and how to pay for it as a first-generation student doing it all on your own,” said a student whose parents were undocumented immigrants from Puebla, Mexico. times. “But with this confusion and wait for the FAFSA, it's like my wings have been clipped.”
The father from Guatemala still wants his daughter to apply for assistance.
“Filling out the FAFSA form may or may not hurt me. But if it can help her, then she should do it,” he said, according to the Times.
In addition to targeting people who are in the country illegally, Trump has also long called for an end to the embargo Citizenship by birth Via an executive order “on day one,” which is sure to be challenged on constitutional grounds.
He was asked about the millions of American citizens who live in mixed-status families NBC News Last month, Trump proposed deporting entire family units.
“I don't want to break up families,” Trump said. “So the only way you don't break up a family is to keep them together and you have to bring them all back.”
Tom Homan, Trump's “border czar,” has floated the idea of placing children of illegal immigrants in halfway houses as part of the incoming administration's mass deportation plan. Instead, the president-elect proposed deporting American citizens along with their parents. (Mark Abramson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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But the president-elect has been softer on “Dreamers” who entered the United States as minors and were protected from deportation under a law prohibiting deportation. Obama-era regime.
He added: “We have to do something about the dreamers, because these people came here at a very young age, and many of them are now middle-aged, and they do not even speak the language of their country.” He added: “I will work with the Democrats to develop a plan.”
