Santiago Potes is one of the hundreds of thousands of DACA-recipients currently living in the U.S. His parents fled Colombia when he was four years old, traveling with Potes to Miami.
Now, Potes, 23, is a graduate of Columbia University and also the first Latino DACA recipient to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” he tells NPR’s Morning Edition. “I just thought that they were going to call me, and say ‘Oh, we made a mistake. Sorry about that, we actually didn’t choose you.’ ”
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