Venezuelans in Aurora face challenges in school and dealing with Trump-led conspiracies

Alisson Ramírez, right, listens to her social studies teacher during class on August 28, 2024, in Aurora, Colorado. She is attending school in a city Trump has said is overrun by migrants - (AP)

Starting seventh grade at her first American school, facing classes taught entirely in English, Alisson Ramirez steeled herself for rejection and months of feeling lost.

“I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn’t know how to answer,” the Venezuelan teen says. “And I would be ashamed to answer in Spanish.”