What does Aisha admit to Nadira when she joins her in the playground in Section 13: Chapter 16?

Aisha takes the stage to give her valedictorian speech, and when she hesitates, Nadira signals her to go ahead. The audience gasps when Aisha introduces herself, admitting she is an illegal alien. She continues that her family came to America eight years ago on a tourist visa and stayed. Abba worked, and the first lawyer they hired to make them legal disappeared.