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Weve bumped it up in light of President Trumps decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA program. Muoz, 2. 5, is like a lot of Americans his age, the third of four kids, with a mom who worries and dotes on him. Hes a sports nut living in the self styled Bratwurst Capital of the World, and for a city in Wisconsin, thats saying something. People from this part of the country have an accent that seems to smile at you, and that describes Jos, too. But as you have probably guessed, he is not a citizen of the United States, despite growing up, graduating from high school and living here for the past 2. His family came to the country, from Mexico City, when he was one year old. They entered the country lawfully, on a visa. They just never left when it expired. Much of the U. S. I always felt different, Jos says. In school, he was put in ELL classesEnglish Language Learner, which actually means someone who doesnt speak it natively. But that didnt last long. When they started putting me in regular classes, it felt weird, Jos said. My senior year, I was in an honors class with just 2. I only talked to, maybe, two of them. Id just be quiet and pay attention, while everyone else would be busting jokes and whatever. He was a good student, a sports fan, a video game nut living in Americas dairyland. Still, I always felt different. Jos knew from a young age that he and his family were not American citizens. Id hear my dad come home and say things to my mom, like, I cant go work there, because they check, he said. Thats pretty much how I figured it out. They check is, for an undocumented worker, a big red X over that business address. If you lie about having U. S. citizenship on an I 9 form, and its discoveredat any pointits over. You are forever inadmissible to the United Statesthat means you lose any chance at citizenship. While there is a dont askdont tell structure to the labor economy of undocumented immigrants, where some employers either knowingly pay illegal labor in cash or, more benevolently, assume theyre citizens without asking for proof, these jobs arent in a field most would consider a career ambition. After graduation, Jos briefly enrolled at the community college taking marketing courses. It didnt feel right, he said. Jos hadnt taken the ACT to apply to the University of Wisconsin because, well, they check. And as a nonresident, hed be paying the out of state rate, which is vastly more than the family could afford. The community college was a more affordable workaround, but one day, the pointlessness of his situation just came crashing down. I told my mom, what if I do well in class, what if I go out and get a job doing thistheyll ask for my citizenship, he said. Why should I go to school if its not going to work out in the endSo he came home, sat on the couch, and picked up a controller. You talk to EA Sports, do you think theyll make another FIFA World Cup edition Jos says brightly when I tell him what I do. Jos, I assure you they will make another next year, I say. You know, EA Sports needs to hire me, he laughs. Id put the Madden back into Madden. I tell him I hear that all the time, and ask what idea he has thats so special. Id bring back the soundtrack. Wait, the soundtrack You mean EA Trax The thing we all mute after a week of hearing it in the menusIt matters Thats where I found most of the bands I like, playing video games, he said. Joses life since graduation was really that cloistered by video games. Hed babysit his little brother, and hed drive him to school or his mom to her work, though his first license expired two years after he got it and he couldnt renew it, thanks to new proof of citizenship requirements the state passed in 2. He took the risk of driving with an expired license anyway. I would still drive them, because Im a good driver, he said, sounding like every American his age. Jos killed time with TV and Internet during the day at night, hed spend hours with his cousins on Xbox Live. Then hed spend most of the day playing Madden on his older brothers Play. Station 2. In 2. 00. Xbox 3. 60, whose 2. GB hard drive today seems so small. Jos opened an Xbox Live Gold account using his dads credit card, but registered it under his name, and began filling up the drive with trailers and free game demos. WWE Smackdown vs. RAW 2. 00. 7 was the first one he downloaded. At night, hed create a lobby and chat with his cousins in Las Vegas. We wouldnt even be playing the same games, it was just me talking to them, Jos said. Theyd come over here every summer, I really looked forward to them coming over here. Basically, in the day it was TV, Internet, then at nights, going online with my cousin in Xbox Live, Jos said. But his sense of purpose was draining out as the days passed, empty and unused. Oh yeah, I got down on myself, he said. The only thing that would make me feel better was talking to my cousins at night. Sometimes you can make yourself forget about it but, yeah. He started seeing a therapist. His father offered ideas for jobs where Jos wouldnt have to lie to get on a payroll, but in the nadir of his depression, nothing sounded like a good option. My feeling was, I just want to work here, Ive been here since I was little, and it wasnt my decision, Jos said. Why should I be punishedJos had moved on from Madden and FIFA to other sports titles, as well as Crackdown and the Gears of War series. On Black Friday in 2. I bought Batman Arkham City, he said, and it provided a solid distraction for a couple of months. He preordered UFC Undisputed 3. I didnt spend any money on anything besides video games, he said. In June, the DREAM Act, a proposed bipartisan immigration reform bill, had stalled out completely in Congress thanks mostly to election year politics. In response, the Obama Administration issued an executive order called DACA, meaning Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Meaning Jos, and some 2 million people like him. Basically, the Department of Homeland Security was offering a legal stay of two years which are renewable to undocumented immigrants between the ages of 1. With this deferred action status, in Wisconsin, they can get a drivers license. They can get in state tuition. They can get a work permit. There was one problem. Jos had no proof hed been living here since 2. The news of DACA sent about 5. Milwaukee to Davorin Odrcic, an immigration attorney who has been practicing in that field since 2. Hed acquired an interest in immigration law through work hed done on a student project at Notre Dame law school, and was drawn back to it after a few stressful years practicing as an attorney in corporate law elsewhere. Like Jos, he tried to manage that stress by playing video games late into the evening with someone in Las Vegas. I know this because, full disclosure, that someone was me. Dav and I are personal friends, having known each other for about a dozen years. We once set a point spread and bet on a CPU vs. CPU matchup of our alma maters in NCAA Football 2. He won. When the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began taking DACA applications in August, Jos and his mother visited Dav in his office. The requirements for DACA are straightforward A person has to show they arrived to the U. S. prior to age 1. Gamer. 95 Fan. Fiction. Author has written 2. 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