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Hernandez certainly didn't get that memo. Born in Mexico but having lived in the United States since she was 6, she is well-educated, informed and outspoken. Having been granted a reprieve from deportation under the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, she works as a paralegal at a Washington, D.C., firm that specializes in immigration law. Every day, she sees firsthand the wreckage of a broken system.

"People don't understand what's going on with all the deportations," she said. "It's ignorance. As a paralegal, I have mothers coming into the office crying, saying their husbands were deported. I mean, the humanity of it all. How can someone see that and not be angry at the injustice?"

Welcome to the immigration debate. When the injustice is being perpetrated by a Democratic administration, you'd be surprised how willfully blind some liberals can be.

Seated only about 50 feet from where the president was speaking, Hernandez said she knew she wouldn't have a chance like this again.

Outside, pro-immigrant protesters were picketing Obama over his policies. She wanted to give them a voice.

"I knew [the president] was going to touch on DACA, and his decision not to take executive action," she said. "And so when he said we're not going to get into that conversation right now, that was my cue."

Hernandez sprang to her feet and shouted at Obama: "What happened to change we can believe in?"

Obama tried to cut her off, saying "I'm about to get to that."

But she kept going, shouting back: "Mr. President, stop the deportations! We need relief now!"

Obama responded by reassuring the crowd that he was not going to give up the fight for immigration reform.

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