Gordon Ip, 22, is just months away from a bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a DACA student, a "Dreamer," with seven months' protection from deportation left on his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals permit.
The Trump administration rescinded the program this month, throwing Ip's future _ and that of more than 800,000 DACA-eligible young people _ into question.
Ip arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong legally, with his parents and an older brother, on a tourist visa when he was 4. His father works in construction, his mother at a nail salon. They didn't tell Ip about the family's status until he was 17.
Since Trump's election, Ip has been praying that his parents, who are in Southern California, won't get deported. Now, he can't stop thinking about what might await him in Hong Kong.
Daniela Gerson, who also interviewed Ip in August about his DACA status for the Los Angeles Times' opinion section, spoke with him by phone hours after he learned of Trump's decision.
