
Like someone needs to explain why not? They have so much budget too. And I feel like we could totally do that for the UC System.

Other colleges have scholarships for international students to apply. So it’s like, why isn’t there better options? We can’t apply for financial aid. And also a lot of the students in UC are international students, other colleges also. The UC system is one of the 20th largest or richest in the world. Oo :I say this because I have friends in other states and across the US and UCSB could do so much better. So I’m just like, why are you doing this, who is this helping, is this a power play? Even out-of-state students, we pay a lot more than that. International students pay two to three times more than in-state students pay. I don’t know why they’re doing it, because a lot of money are coming from international students. And we’re just how kids, like how could they do this to us? It was so stupid. So we do have that but then the waitlist was so long and we weren’t sure if ICE was going to kick us out, when were they going to kick us out? It was a lot of uncertainty. Only Burmese citizens that are stranded in other countries, like although the borders are closed, they can come back home. I know my friend from UK also went back home on a relief flight but I also know my friends in America are going back home from there. What are we doing? What are we doing? We have to get out.’ But then my country’s borders were closed so we didn’t have flights going into the country so I was like, how are we going to leave? But then a friend was like there’s this thing called relief flights that Burma is doing and I’m sure also other countries are doing.

When ICE announced the news, it was a combined panic and manic. But because I don’t have family here, I stayed with friends. Oo : Actually, when that happened, I was in Long Beach because I was with friends from my home, didn’t have anywhere to go because my lease ended and there was a gap where I had to find a place to stay.
