Avila Medrano was threatened with deportation to her native Mexico by a high school teacher in Arizona. Years later, she said she was afraid to speak up after repeatedly being sexually harassed at her workplace in Southern California.
Medrano, who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, now has a work permit and is exempt from deportation under President Barack Obama's executive order affecting certain undocumented immigrants who entered the country before their 16th birthday.