Pass the DREAM Act - Ideas for Change in America: Graduation

Graduation - Is it The End?

Published June 08, 2009 @ 05:34PM PT

Two graduating seniors are featured in this story:

Three million high school students across the U.S. are receiving their diplomas this month. About 65,000 of them are in the country illegally, most of them in California. But few of those students go to college. Money is a major hurdle for the roughly 6,000 who do pursue higher education, because they're not eligible for most financial aid. We tell the story of two young women, graduating today, who are trying to get to college. Reporter: Kathryn Baron

This is a tough time for DREAM Act students--65,000 of us are graduating from high schools only to be in limbo, unable to move forward with nowhere to go. Contrary to the experiences of documented seniors, graduation is not a rite of passage for undocumented students. For many, it is slamming the door shut, yet another roadblock.

To commemorate and bring attention to this fact, United We DREAM is holding a national DREAM Act graduation day on June 23. Join us in Washington D.C. or in Los Angeles.via DREAM Team LA.

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Prerna Lal: San Francisco, CA; Dream ACTivist is a law-school bound queer undocumented student and blogger. Her family came to the United States legally but due to the massive USCIS backlog, she aged out on their visa petition at the age of 21. Despite not being able to drive, work, get financial aid or even instate-tuition for college, she graduated with a Masters degree at the age of 22 and since then, has been volunteering with organizations in the community and working on pro-migrant reforms such as the DREAM Act