Karina Ortiz and Jenny Soto work together as part-time tellers at the Perry, Iowa branch of The Family Credit Union.
They're both 22. They've been friends since fourth grade. They're both Dreamers: Born outside the United States, they are among the 800,000 young people who were born outside of the United States and given temporary protection from deportation under an executive order signed by President Barack Obama in 2012.
On Sept. 5, they felt their dreams being crushed when President Donald Trump signed another executive order rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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