Immigrant Youth Achieves the American Dream

June 10, 2008 · 1 Comment

Check out this video, featuring Samantha Contreras who is now a scholar at the Drum Major Institue for Public Policy. However, Samantha’s future wasn’t also so bright…

Despite her families attempts for legal status, Samantha graduated from high school while still undocumented. She quickly realized the barriers facing immigrants in the United States – she couldn’t drive, couldn’t work and couldn’t achieve her dream of attending college.

Watch the video to find out how her dream became a reality…

Categories: Youth
Tagged: DREAM Act, immigrant youth

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Horace // June 11, 2008 at 8:56 pm

I’m sorry that they were duped, but it wasn’t the honest citizens of this country that made the fraudlent promises. They must go home.

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