美国国家公共电台 NPR A DACA Recipient Graduates Amid Deportation Fears

 

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

It's graduation season for colleges and universities across the United States - a time for celebration for many families but also added anxiety for DACA recipients¹. The DREAMers have been able to finish and get college degrees but must worry that they might also be soon deported². Jessica Moreno-Caycho is a DREAMer who came to the United States with her family in 2003 from Peru. She's graduating from Virginia Commonwealth³ University School of the Arts costume design program. She joins us from Richmond, Va. Thanks so much for being with us.

JESSICA MORENO-CAYCHO: Thank you so much for having me.

SIMON: So may I ask how old you are when you came to the United States?

MORENO-CAYCHO: I was 8 years old.

SIMON: Remember anything of Peru?

MORENO-CAYCHO: Yeah, I remember my family, our home, the school that I used to go to, a couple of the parks. But they are very distant memories.

SIMON: Yeah. You're American for all practical purposes?

MORENO-CAYCHO: Yeah.

SIMON: Have you had extra anxiety this year, your senior year of college?

MORENO-CAYCHO: Oh, yes, a lot. I graduated high school having DACA and, you know, having that little bit of privilege of having a work permit, a Social Security number and being able to drive through that. So I've gotten used to, you know, like being able to provide for myself, for my family, to pay for my own tuition - specially⁴ because undocumented people here in Virginia, we are not eligible⁵ for any state financial aid and much less any federal financial aid to begin with. So when DACA was rescinded⁶, it was something that we had been expecting for a while since this presidency⁷ came to its terms. But, you know, it didn't feel real until it was actually real.

SIMON: May I ask where your parents are?

MORENO-CAYCHO: My parents are living in Northern Virginia right now.

SIMON: They've had a hard time too - or anxious time, I should say.

MORENO-CAYCHO: Not as anxious as I have been mainly because they're very confident that if something happens, then something better is going to happen.

SIMON: What would something better be?

MORENO-CAYCHO: Hopefully a clean DREAM act - something that's not going to increase border security, is not going to increase law enforcement in our communities - only, you know, for the protection of the youth when, you know, we - the only reason why we are wherever we are is because of our families and our communities. And most of those communities, you know, they wouldn't be eligible for a DREAM Act. So if we're eligible for it, why should our eligibility⁸ hurt them - hurt our communities? And after that, you know, we're going to keep fighting for comprehensive immigration reform - that way our families also don't have to continue to suffer and to live in the shadows.

SIMON: I'm told theater has been particularly important to you over the past couple of years.

MORENO-CAYCHO: Yes, it has. Theater has definitely been an escape to just, you know, work on the show, work on the production and see the magic of it going up and seeing that art. And theater has just become so much more diverse. All these stories that just tell these stories about people that you don't usually hear about. Whether they're queer, brown, black, trans, undocumented, it's all these stories. And I think that it's really magical, and it really paints like a really great picture of everybody on stage.

SIMON: What shows have you worked on?

MORENO-CAYCHO: Here at VCU, we just closed "Into The Woods."

SIMON: Well, lots of luck to you - very good speaking with you.

MORENO-CAYCHO: Thank you.

SIMON: Jessica Moreno-Caycho, VCU's class of 2018, soon to be a master's candidate at the University of Washington. Congratulations. Thanks very much.

MORENO-CAYCHO: Thank you.

(SOUNDBITE OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM SONG, "INTO THE WOODS")

1 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 deported   

v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 )；举止

参考例句：

• They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格，将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

4 specially   

adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地

参考例句：

• They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
• The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。

5 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。

6 rescinded   

v.废除，取消( rescind的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Rescinded civil acts shall be null and void from the very beginning. 被撤销的民事行为从行为开始起无效。 来自互联网
• They accepted his advice and rescinded the original plan. 他们听从了他的劝告，撤销了原计划。 来自互联网

7 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

8 eligibility   

n.合格，资格

参考例句：

• What are the eligibility requirements? 病人被选参加试验的要求是什么？ 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望
• Eligibility for HINARI access is based on gross national income (GNI). 进入HINARI获取计划是依据国民总收入来评定的。