Margaret is a 20-year-old psychology major at a university in Massachusetts. She is also an undocumented immigrant. Margaret and her family moved from El Salvador to the U.S. when she was 14. Like many other undocumented immigrants, they are unable to pursue avenues that lead to legal residency, in part because of the challenges they face obtaining simple documentation like IDs and driver’s licenses.

“There is no way for people like me to apply for a green card if we are already within the borders of the U.S. I also don’t qualify for DACA like millions of other people,” Margaret tells Teen Vogue. “It is extremely scary to live a normal life knowing that, if one day you do something slightly wrong, you could be stopped and asked for an ID — that you don’t have — and then being deported.”

Margaret doesn’t have a government-issued identification card, as she is unable to apply for a driver’s license in Massachusetts without proof of residency. Currently, only 13 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. Not having a driver’s license makes her day-to-day life much harder.

“My school, although accessible by public transportation, is an hour and 45 min commute — if there are no inconveniences or delays with the trains,” Margaret shares. By car, the same trip would take 25 minutes. “It has been tough because at the age of 20, most people have their license and can independently move to places they want and need to be.”

There are an estimated 173,000 undocumented immigrants in Massachussettes alone. According to 2016 population estimates from the Pew Research Center, there could be nearly 6 million undocumented immigrants living in states where lawmakers haven’t loosened restrictions on driver’s license laws.

That’s why immigration rights activists are pushing to change these laws. The Drive Without Fear campaign is spearheaded by the nonprofit organization Movimiento Cosecha, and seeks to bring driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants in several states including New Jersey, Michigan, Georgia, and Massachusetts.

“In the past few years, we’ve seen more and more attacks on the immigrant community every single day, yet still, the Massachusetts legislators have not moved forward to pass any legislation to protect immigrants,” Amelia Gonzalez Pinal, a 25-year-old volunteer organizer of Movimiento Cosecha, tells Teen Vogue.

“Every day there is another news headline to induce fear of deportation and hatred [of immigrants]. Every day, immigrants get behind the wheel to go to work and take care of their families and face the fear of deportation, detention, and family separation for driving without a license,” says Pinal, who is also critical of the fact that legislators haven’t taken action in the 15 years since a driver’s license bill was first introduced in the state.