When Yasmine Mustafa was a 15-year-old high school student in Pennsylvania, she was prepping and planning for college applications when she learned a shocking piece of information: She was undocumented.
Mustafa had lived in the United States for seven years at that point, having previously moved with her family from Kuwait. As she started to understand the implications of her status, she’d face what felt like insurmountable hurdles throughout her education and entrance to the workforce — hurdles that millions of workers in the U.S. attempt to overcome every year.
