This new exhibit has photos of children of illegal immigrants, brought here as very young kids and who have grown up as Americans, although not legally. They have no memory or ties to their birth countries. - - Donna Poisl
By Lee Davidson, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — With wind blowing her long hair and dangling earrings, the Utah teenager in the photo crosses both hands over her heart — as if making the biggest wish of her life.
"I hold hope in my hands," the girl wrote in a note with her portrait. "It is the hope that one day I will be seen as a human instead of an alien."
That same hope led a social worker and a photographer to team up over two years to create an exhibit that tells stories of children who were brought to Utah by illegal-immigrant parents and the no-man's land they enter as they become adults.
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