Monday, June 4, 2007

Illegal students await immigration plan

Illegal students await immigration plan (AP)

Marie Gonzalez waves to the crowd during a local parade in Jefferson City, Mo. in this July 3, 2005 file photo. Gonzales, whose parents were deported to Costa Rica in 2005, is now a 21-year-old junior at Westminster College may face deportation next year. She has become one of the most vocal student advocates of a part of the proposed immigration bill that would allow children to gain temporary legal status when the graduate from high school as long as they enlist in the military or enroll in college. (AP Photo/Jefferson City News-Tribune, Kelley McCall, File)AP - 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.


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