State Dream Acts Offer Important Opportunities to Undocumented Students

These new laws will help the kids go to college, hopefully, by the time they finish, more laws will be enacted to help them in the next steps. - - Donna Poisl

by Roberto G. Gonzales

As thousands of undocumented immigrant students in California and Illinois enter and return to college this fall, they will have new hope about their futures because of legislation providing them access to privately-funded college tuition assistance passed earlier this summer in both states. While these state measures do not guarantee a pathway to legalization for their recipients, they do help to address financial needs for higher education -- presently, while more than 65 percent of all American students receive some form of financial aid, undocumented immigrant students are ineligible for federal or state financial assistance.

Nevertheless, many ask, why prepare these young people for futures they cannot legally attain?
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