Two Sides of Mississippi's Immigration Debate
By Junior Reporter Garrett Tenney
Published February 15, 2011

Sole Arellano, bottom left, stands with more than 70 others at the State Capitol, protesting Mississippi's proposes immigration bill. (photo taken on January 12, 2011.)

MIRA (Mississippi Immigration Rights Alliance)

José has big dreams of going to college and becoming an accountant one day. He’s worked hard in high school, carrying a 3.7 GPA, to be one of the first in his family to go to college.

But José, whose parents carried him across the border when he was barely a year-old, says he constantly worries his dreams could come crashing down at any moment.

“My parents tell us not to be scared, but it’s always in our minds. Someday it could happen. I could get deported,â€