A graduate student fears she won’t be able to complete her 11th year of college in America because President Donald Trump might deport her.

Oriette D’Angelo, a doctoral student studying Spanish and Gender, Women and Sexuality studies at the University of Iowa, moved from her home country of Venezuela to Chicago in 2015 on a student visa.

Because consulate buildings were closed at that time due to Venezuela’s shattered relationship with the US, she had to travel to Colombia to renew it, D’Angelo told the outlet.

The 34-year-old, who is also a professor, chose to flee her home of Lechería after she watched it decline.

Although she’s been in the US for years to seek academic and professional opportunities, D’Angelo is scared her dreams could soon be crushed by Trump’s administration as he continues to crackdown on illegal citizens in America.

After finding out that her studies might come to an end, D’Angelo, who often writes poetry around themes of dictatorship for class, told friends she would mail Trump’s administration notebooks of her work if she was forced to head back to Venezuela.

‘It would be almost impossible to start over,’ she told the Chicago Tribune.

Over the years, D’Angelo has come face to face with immigration rules and guidelines, including when her Venezuelan passport expirI’m 2020

She then applied for temporary protected status (TPS), which was introduced under former President Joe Biden to help citizens of countries stricken by war or natural disaster get temporary work.

When she came back to the US in November 2024, D’Angelo was processed under TPS, not her student visa, as she made her way through O’Hare International Airpomailrt.

She had officially lost her foreign student status even though her whole reason for moving to the US was for her to study.

Daily Mail