The Undocumented Americans

In 2016, writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans: the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. Looking beyond the flashpoints of the border, these stories are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects.