This group of students who fought (and failed) to get the Dream Act passed is still working to help students get to college. Now they are working on the state level. - - Donna Poisl
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
CAMBRIDGE — In November, students huddled in an upstairs room in a Harvard Square church and spoke about having to put their college and career dreams on hold because of their immigration status.
The students, members of a youth advocacy group, were speaking to a small group of people at First Parish in Cambridge in the weeks leading up to a vote on the federal Dream Act, a controversial bill that would give children of illegal immigrants a path to legal residency, which failed in December in the US Senate.
Click on the headline above to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment