College-educated and illegal: Immigrants pin job hopes on DREAM Act | WorldCSM

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College-educated and illegal: Immigrants pin job hopes on DREAM Act | WorldCSM

CHICAGO — Tina was 3 years old when her mother carried her across the Rio Grande into the United States. Plucked from her birthplace, the Mexican mining town of Zacatecas, she grew up in a Chicago suburb. She studied hard, earned high grades, and enrolled in a local community college – making her the first in her family to go to college. Tina wasn’t done. In May she graduated from Northern …

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