Lizbeth Sanchez Olivera thanks DACA for giving her a path to follow her dreams.
Sanchez Olivera worked diligently in high school and excelled academically. She knew she wanted to be the first one in her family to go to college but didn't know how she was going to pay for it, Sanchez Olivera said. Even though she was accepted into several schools, she was undocumented and didn't qualify for financial aid. Her parents urged her to go a different path from higher education.
"When I told my parents that I wanted to go to college, their first conversation was, 'But Liz, we didn't come to this country to go to school. We came to this country to work. Do what your sister's doing.'" Her sister worked in customer service for an information technology company. But Sanchez Olivera said she wanted more. She enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles and worked three jobs as a housekeeper, food vendor and carpet cleaner.
Lizbeth Sanchez Olivera is seen with her family during her graduation ceremony at California State University, Los Angeles.According to Sanchez Olivera, she would wake up at 4:30 a.m. each school day, attend classes in the morning, eat lunch, clean houses or carpets in the afternoon, then come home, eat dinner and study until about 10 p.m. She'd then do it all over again the next day. She worked as a food vendor on the weekends.
But she had to take multiple semesters off to work and save up for her education and 2011 was especially hard for her, she said. Her mother's rheumatoid arthritis was getting worse and medical bills were mounting, Sanchez Olivera said. Nearly all of her income was going to her mother's medical bills and rent for their apartment. She took the year off from school and nearly quit her education, altogether.
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