Sixteen-year-old Katy Martinez lives in Las Vegas, where she’s finishing her junior year of high school and planning for college. She's from a union family, and her parents both migrated from El Salvador nearly 20 years ago; she’s a U.S. citizen who has spent her entire life in the States. The administration wants to end TPS for an estimated 260,000 Salvadorans on September 9. Katy says that fact is always on her mind.

“It’s something that looms over my head, even at school,” she tells Teen Vogue. Her parents are both protected under TPS, and she says the prospect of it being ended for El Salvador means she doesn’t know “if I’ll ever have the chance to go through with going to a dance, or going to my competitions for dance, or even help out at my church.”

She says that if TPS were ended for El Salvadorans, she isn’t sure if she would leave with her parents or try to stay.

“I’m still 16, my brother is 13, and we rely on our parents for things,” she says. “If on the chance we do leave with them, we’re losing everything we have, from all of our scholarship opportunities, our school opportunities, all of our friends — we’re leaving everything behind.”

Alternately, if she and her brother stay when her parents are forced to leave, Katy says she’d suddenly have new responsibilities. It’s also complicated planning the next few years of her life — crucially, where to apply to college.

“It has impacted my [college] search because if there’s a possibility of me having to leave, I feel scared to apply for the colleges I want to go to,” Katy explains.

Like Katy, Hnaida Cenemat is also 16. Her mother, Wilna Destin, is a labor organizer with UNITE HERE Local 737 and a TPS recipient from Haiti who came to the U.S. 19 years ago.

Hnaida says she always feared that her mom’s status was at risk. “Once when I was little, we were in our apartment and heard immigration was knocking on people’s doors. Me and my mom really got scared. So if they came to the door, we wouldn’t answer and pretend no one was home,” she says.

According to The Hill, Democrats believe the Dream Act and the American Promise Act could pass the House this June, though their prospects in the Republican-controlled Senate (or with the current occupant of the White House, who could veto the bill) are less bright in the near future.