I Survived the Gangs and the Border Crossing—but Trump Has Put New Obstacles in My Path
A Young Undocumented Salvadoran Immigrant Won't Quit His Dream of Becoming an American
If you quit today, everything you did yesterday will be wasted.
That is the phrase I grew up living in my native El Salvador.
I emigrated to Los Angeles in 2014, a long trip by land that took me two months. I needed to leave San Salvador: I had dreams of being a journalist, but I had no money. I could only afford two years at the Technological University of El Salvador. And economic life was too dominated by maras, or gangs. They are engaged in widespread extortion and selling drugs.
So with …