More stories about graduates who desperately need the DREAM Act to be enacted. - - Donna Poisl
By SUSAN CARROLL, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A little over a year ago, Edith Paulín stood amid thousands of soon-to-be college graduates on the University of Texas campus, reveling in the pride of being the first in her family to earn a college diploma.
In the stands, she spotted her mother and father, who had brought her to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 9 years old, a petite fourth-grader who spoke no English. She was proud that she could recite the Greek myth of Persephone and had become so Americanized that she roots for the U.S. World Cup soccer team, not Mexico's. And she was becoming a bona fide UT grad complete with the Hook 'em Horns on her car's bumper.
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