Nicaragua migrant on Obama plan: \\\'Now, I can fly\\\'

MIAMI, Nov 21(AFP): She has lived in the shadows for 14 years, fearing deportation.
But now Bertha Sanles of Nicaragua is jubilant over President Barack Obama's executive order shielding her and up to four million other undocumented foreigners from expulsion and letting her apply for a three year work permit.
"You know what I feel? That I want to scream and say, 'now, I can fly. I can do so many things,'" Sanles said after the president's national televised speech.
"I feel like I am someone," said Sanles, who makes a living cleaning other people's houses in Miami and lives in an apartment with her husband, two daughters, three dogs and a turtle.
She watched the president's speech on a large screen TV in the parking lot of an immigration advocacy group headquarters, along with her family and dozens of other undocumented immigrants and activists.
Despite her happiness, Sanles said she is sad for those who have been left out.
Obama's order applies to undocumented foreigners who have lived in the US for at least five years and have children who are US citizens or legal permanent residents born on or before November 20, the date of Obama's order.
Sanles is eligible because her daughter Leah is a US citizen.
Her other daughter, Christell, who is 20 and was born in Nicaragua, was able to sign up for the so-called DACA program-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It granted temporary residency to people who arrived here before the age of 16.
Despite all her years of living in fear of deportation back to her destitute homeland, Sanles said she never lost hope a day like this would come.
"A lot of bubbles burst. A lot of people stopped believing, but I never lost faith," she said ahead of Obama's announcement, as she nervously awaited the president's plans on immigration.