Case deepens immigration debate

This Harvard student is a perfect example of why the DREAM Act is needed now. It will help many children just like him. - - Donna Poisl

Backers say Harvard student is poster child for Dream Act

By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE — The memory is a blurry snapshot in his mind. Eric Balderas was 4 years old, curled up under covers on a raft. He could see the sun poking through the sky, hear whispers above him, and feel the swell of the Rio Grande below.

It was the day his family crossed the border illegally from Mexico into the United States — a day that shadowed him all his life and until Friday threatened to derail his extraordinary rise from the son of a factory worker, to high school valedictorian in Texas, to Harvard college student.
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