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Illegals seek more than college degrees
Kevin Graman
Staff writer
October 27, 2007
A teenage girl studying entrepreneurship at Washington State University would be on her way to realizing the American Dream, except she is not American.
Mercedes grew up poor in a small central Washington farm town, studied hard and despite having to work part-time, the Running Start student graduated from high school with a 3.8 grade-point average and an associate’s degree from Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake.
Like other 18-year-olds starting college this fall, Mercedes is motivated by personal ambition. She wants to own a business so that she can provide jobs to other Latinos. But because she was brought to the United States from Mexico by her parents when she was 2 — and is here illegally — she has lived in fear since she was very young of being detected and deported to a native country she has never known.
“I always worried that immigration (officers) would come if I didn’t excel,â€
Re: William Gheen "quoted" in the Pacific Northwes
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advocates of the DREAM act say it is unfair to keep these children in limbo while comprehensive reform is resolved.
Well, since Comprehensive Immigration Reform WAS resolved by putting it in the trash heap, it is true we should not leave these poor "children" in limbo and should instead deport them.
Heck we could even be "humane" about it and deport them to a college in their country of origin!