“My parents always said this was such a racist country and I never saw it. And I think I was l

“My parents always said this was such a racist country and I never saw it. And I think I was looking at it through a completely different filter. In my mind, I thought everyone was great and there is not a bad person here. So I gave people the benefit of the doubt.

But then during the campaign, I started to see a completely different side. I started seeing when I was scrolling through Facebook and looking at all the comments people were making and I thought, wow, we really do live in a country where people do not like undocumented immigrants. It was really hard for me to understand why they don’t. I have friends who are really, really shocked that I’m undocumented. I’m not out there advertising it, but it’s important for people to know who we are,” said Aurea Galvan, 25, an undocumented college student originally from Guanajuato, Mexico in an interview with Vox’s Alexia Fernández Campbell about what it’s like to be foreign-born right now in Trump’s America.