Yet these young people started
emerging and telling the stories, and I started repeating them. Then
some amazing stories started emerging about what they were doing with
their lives. You see, if you are undocumented in this country, you don't qualify
for a lot of things most Americans take for granted--Pell grants to go
to college. Students from low-income families receive up to $5,000 or
more a year to go to college. Undocumented students, Dreamers, receive
nothing--nothing--from the Federal Government. The same thing is true about student loans. For the most part, unless
there is a State program, these undocumented students can't qualify for
any government student loans. They have to find some other way. They
usually have to work their way through college--or whatever their
aspirations might be.
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