Winner of the CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary
ScholarshipAbout 2.4 million children and young adults under 24
years of age are undocumented. Brought by their parents to the US
as minors many before they had reached their teens they account for
about one-sixth of the total undocumented population. Illegal
through no fault of their own, some 65,000 undocumented students
graduate from the nation's high schools each year. They cannot get
a legal job, and face enormous barriers trying to enter college to
better themselves and yet America is the only country they know
and, for many, English is the only language they speak. What future
do they have? Why are we not capitalizing, as a nation, on this
pool of talent that has so much to contribute? What should we be
doing?Through the inspiring stories of 16 students from seniors in
high school to graduate students William Perez gives voice to the
estimated 2.4 million undocumented students in the United States,
and draws attention to their plight. These stories reveal how
despite financial hardship, the unpredictability of living with the
daily threat of deportation, restrictions of all sorts, and often
in the face of discrimination by their teachers so many are not
just persisting in the American educational system, but achieving
academically, and moreover often participating in service to their
local communities. Perez reveals what drives these young people,
and the visions they have for contributing to the country they call
home.Through these stories, this book draws attention to these
students predicament, to stimulate the debate about putting right a
wrong not of their making, and to motivate more people to call for
legislation, like the stalled Dream Act, that would offer
undocumented students who participate in the economy and civil life
a path to citizenship. Perez goes beyond this to discuss the social
and policy issues of immigration reform. He dispels myths about
illegal immigrants supposed drain on state and federal resources,
providing authoritative evidence to the contrary. He cogently makes
the case on economic, social, and constitutional and moral grounds
for more flexible policies towards undocumented immigrants. If
today s immigrants, like those of past generations, are a positive
force for our society, how much truer is that where undocumented
students are concerned?"
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