“I’m angry. I’m still in a mixed-citizen family,” said Mendoza-Cawthon, a recent Seattle University law school graduate studying for her bar exam. “I’m scared for the people in my community. I’m scared for the people in my family.” Her parents obtained the appropriate work permit documentation in the 1980s. Her father recently became a U.S. citizen. Her mother is back in Mexico.
“This clearly targets people of color. The president wants the United States to be seen as a certain color,” she added.
A result of the Civil War abolishing slavery, the 14th Amendment begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
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