Obama administration approves first 29 work permits for young illegal immigrants

Some young immigrants are getting through the process, maybe more will make it soon too.  - - Donna Poisl

By Matt O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News

While some remain wary about coming forward, 82,000 young illegal immigrants sought work permits from the Obama administration in the past month, and a small group of 29 people learned their applications were approved in recent days.

Soon, Mayra Gomez could join them. She and her husband, a private and mechanic in the U.S. Army Reserve, received a letter at their East Palo Alto home on Monday from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services telling Gomez to come to the agency's San Francisco office to get her fingerprints taken.

Once a sign of a looming deportation, this fingerprint check was a message to Gomez she had one final step before she can get a work permit.
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