From in-crowd to out

lilbawler2001 · 05-17-2009, 11:45 PM

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At the national level, pending legislation called the Dream Act, first filed in 2001, would allow students to pay resident tuition at public colleges and apply for legal residency.
The Obama administration and the College Board support it, but congressional aides said it is unlikely to pass the House and Senate without an overhaul for all illegal immigrants in the United States.

Stéphania Lavalas, a 31-year-old from Haiti, discovered that she was an illegal immigrant three months before she was to graduate from Dorchester High School in 1996.

Until then, she had racked up an impressive résumé: She was a top-ranked student, a volleyball player, a perfect attendance award-winner, and a tutor. She took college classes while she was still in high school. She wanted to be a teacher.

One day in March 1996, she won a college scholarship and rushed home to tell her father.

"He started to cry and I thought it was happiness," she said. "That's how I found out how I came into the country and that I could not have that dream."

She had arrived when she was 15, and did not know that her family had never obtained legal residency.

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Her graduation ceremony was "like a funeral." A month later, in anguish, she tore down the awards that had blanketed her bedroom walls. She contemplated suicide.

"One day I just cracked and felt like I did all this for nothing," she said. "The purpose was for me to go into college and to help my father, who was working in a nursing home that was killing him. My mother was in a kitchen . . . The hardest part for me was running into classmates. Everybody knew that I was going to be huge."

Her classmates went to college, and she stayed behind. She volunteered at local nonprofits, married, applied for legal residency, and was rejected. The stress broke up her marriage.

Last year she moved to Canada to apply to be a refugee and is waiting for her papers. If she is approved, college applications are next.

"I'm a survivor," she said in a telephone interview from Montreal. "And I don't quit."

http://www.boston.com/news/education...to_out/?page=2

angeleno · 05-18-2009, 12:10 AM

Well, clearly those congressional aides have not heard from Bruinman and his crystal ball.

Pygmalion · 05-18-2009, 12:13 AM

She has been out for college since 1996? She can moved to places like NYC and get into a CUNY for being an undocumented. The out-state tuition isn't that far away from in-state tuition.

I don't get her. But I do feel bad for her, yet at the same time, she has all the choices. Even a few years ago federal finally said even undocumented can get education, she can moved in too.

Well, the congress is being a BITCH if they want to do something called "overhaul all the illegals". This is just stupid. 1,000,000+ PEOPLE IN USA are undocumented.

Bruinman · 05-18-2009, 12:17 AM

well, clearly you better hope those "aides" dont know jack about what they are talkin about. but if what they say is true, then lol. we're gonna be stuck in this at least till 2011. because CIR aint happening this year or next.

Bruinman · 05-18-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Pygmalion

She has been out for college since 1996? She can moved to places like NYC and get into a CUNY for being an undocumented. The out-state tuition isn't that far away from in-state tuition.

I don't get her. But I do feel bad for her, yet at the same time, she has all the choices. Even a few years ago federal finally said even undocumented can get education, she can moved in too.

Well, the congress is being a BITCH if they want to do something called "overhaul all the illegals". This is just stupid. 1,000,000+ PEOPLE IN USA are undocumented.

1 million? more like 12 million.

i love how these looneys want to legalize 12 million people all at once when on the flipside, they cant deport 12 million people. either way its logistically impossible. people need to start tuning into practicality and reality.

8-bitPanda · 05-18-2009, 12:22 AM

My crystal balls.. err ball, is telling me this thread will soon be locked.

angeleno · 05-18-2009, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruinman

well, clearly you better hope those "aides" dont know jack about what they are talkin about. but if what they say is true, then lol. we're gonna be stuck in this at least till 2011. because CIR aint happening this year or next.

You should write them a letter too.

emmjay · 05-18-2009, 12:31 AM

keep calling your senators people.

Bruinman · 05-18-2009, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by angeleno

You should write them a letter too.

i would if the article disclosed its sources. but alas, it didnt. theres no point of pushing for DREAM when its being forcibly tied to CIR for whatever reason. the whole idea behind DREAM ACT is that we didnt commit the actual crime of crossing the border and the only reason we "chose" to stay here after we turned 18 (for those of us who apply), is because all we know is here, our family and friends and culture, and for us "home" is actually here in america.

CIR is to legalize illegal aliens who knowingly, purposefully crossed the border illegally and thus commited an act of crime.

big difference.

Pygmalion · 05-18-2009, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruinman

1 million? more like 12 million.

i love how these looneys want to legalize 12 million people all at once when on the flipside, they cant deport 12 million people. either way its logistically impossible. people need to start tuning into practicality and reality.

lol i forgot one extra 0, don't panic, LOL
if they can deport all of us, they won't even bother to have CIR DA

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