The current president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has consistently disparaged immigrants entering the U.S. but he has saved his most vitriolic language to describe undocumented immigrants who come from countries south of the U.S. border. He has called this Latinx population criminals, rapist, drug dealers, and animals among other derogatory terms (Davis, 2018). In referring to undocumented immigrants Trump maintains a constant barrage of dehumanizing language that permeates print, digital and social media. He has fomented an atmosphere of hate, intolerance and xenophobia. It is under this verbal avalanche of denigration and vilification of undocumented immigrants that emanates from the Trump administration that I sought to explore how undocumented Latinx immigrant youth were portrayed in young adult literature written near the end of the Trump presidential campaign and into his first term (2016-2017). Content analysis and a critical multicultural analysis (CMA) framework were used to provide a lens on how language and power intersect and are used to (Botelho & Rudman, 2009) give or deny characters voice and agency (Moore and Cunningham, 2006). CMA provides young adult (and all) readers a lens to not just read stories but to compare and critique the elements of truth revealed in them. Realistic portrayals of undocumented youth in young adult literature can serve as a counter narrative for adolescents against ill-informed and racist rhetoric.