(CNN) -- Nancy Ayala arrived in the U.S. 11 years ago, at the age of 9. "Why did I move to the States? I still don't know. For a better education, for a better life," she said. One of her biggest dreams was to join the Marines, but at 17, Ayala -- the first in her family to graduate high school -- discovered that she couldn't enlist because she didn't have a Social Security number. "I had dreams, but I had no way to complete them," she said. "Sadly, my whole family is undocumented." Ayala soon moved back to her home country of Mexico but now regrets doing so: "I've been here for 10 months. I cry every night, missing my family, and God knows when IÂ´ll see them again."
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iReporters with varying personal experiences with immigration shared their views
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Nancy Ayala lived in the U.S. illegally for 10 years, regrets returning to Mexico
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Diana Carey, a former illegal immigrant, opposes the tactics used by immigration activists
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Most did not believe recent immigration decisions would affect them today
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