Action helps beat down my feelings of helplessness and man, this feels so good.

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Sometimes it's just I just want to share good news. Last week I learned about a student named Wendy Vega. She's a premed student at Texas State University. The bad thing about it was last year on her 19th birthday she got detained by ICE at a routine appointment. Was found out later that her case was a mistake. She was still held in detention for 10 months. Wasn't supposed to be there.

[00:00:22]During her 10 months being there, she lost her scholarship to Texas State University where she was a freshman and was on the deans list her freshman year.

[00:00:29]wants to be a pediatrician. She lost her scholarship because I detained her without cause. I didn't like it. I tried to figure out what I could do. Wrote a letter, contacted their school, got some support from other other professionals.

[00:00:44]She brought it back. She met with the school and the school is going to let her reenroll and reinstate her scholarship. I wanted to remind everybody that where you can help, you should help. Sometimes it it's really worth it.

[00:00:58]I'm going to hold on to this for a