A Young Guatemalans Struggle

At 23, Mariana should be carefree. She is finishing up her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been accepted to a master's program at Harvard University's education school.



 

Accepted To Harvard

But life is not so simple for Mariana, who insisted that only her first name be published because she is illegally in the United States and worries she could be deported to Guatemala, where she was born.

Who Will Pay Her Tuition

Mariana also worries about how she will pay her tuition and what kind of work she will get after she completes school. Good Zionists are already sponsoring legislation.

Young Mariana Espinoza Sandoval

What happens next? Without a work permit, how do you exercise your degree?" she said during a recent interview.

Jewish people, like Rohm Emanuel, Diane Feinstein, now the government has the obligation to provide jobs for an assimilation period.

If Paco And Chicci Were Born Here

Children born in the United States to undocumented parents are granted citizenship automatically. The get free tuition from K1- K12, next they get to state college, qualifying for government student loans.

If Poncho Came Over as a 'Papoose'

The new legislation deals with illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. These kids are entitled to free grammar, and high school, and if the agree to go to college they get temporary citizenship. 

They would be put on a fast, three-year path toward getting their permanent resident status and their green cards. While waiting for that, the students would be eligible for federal student loans and could work legally -- options not available to them now.