Forced to live in the shadows under fear of being arrested and
deported, her father could not find steady, safe work in South
Florida.

Vote Your Voice Florida: Student organization trains tomorrow's
leaders

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Rhonda Sonnenberg     Read the full piece here

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friend,  

Cynthia Frage's entire childhood in West Palm Beach, Florida,
was defined by the fact that her father, a Haitian immigrant who came
to the U.S. at the age of 19, was unable to obtain citizenship.

He could not get a green card that would allow him to work legally,
even after steadily trying for more than two decades. Not even his
1997 marriage to Frage's mother, a permanent U.S. resident who
came from Haiti at 14, made a difference.

Forced to live in the shadows under fear of being arrested and
deported, her father could not find steady, safe work in South
Florida. When Frage was in third through fifth grades, her father
lived and worked in Jacksonville - separated from the family.

"We went to see him every spring break," said Frage, one
of six children. "We knew a lot about why he was away -
that it was about work and his green card status. My parents are open
about things, but it really affected my family. My mom was always
stressed. She's a nurse and had two jobs then. We would go to
school, then aftercare, then a cousin would pick us up and take us to
his home until my mother got home at 8 p.m. I don't know how she
did it."

Now 20 and a broadcast journalism major at Florida A&M University,
Frage is working for change from the ground up as the Tallahassee
civic engagement organizer for Florida Student Power
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The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization is among 68 voter outreach
groups across the Deep South that are receiving a total of more than
$20 million in funding from the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of
the new round of Vote Your Voice grants announced in October.

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