Students disclose illegal status as part of push for immigration law reform

These kids are amazingly brave. They feel this is what is needed to prove their point and push for immigration reform and particularly the DREAM Act. - - Donna Poisl

By Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post Staff Writer

On a patch of asphalt outside the White House this week, Renata Teodoro, Maricela Aguilar and scores of other students are risking deportation simply by sharing their full names and immigration status with anyone who asks.

In an act of defiance unimaginable to many in their parents' generation, they are publicly declaring that they are in the United States illegally as a way to push for change that would help thousands of undocumented young people like them. And they are doing so in one of the most highly patrolled -- and politicized -- spots in the country.
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