Well-Educated and Undocumented--OC Register

Underground Undergrads is in the OC Register! (secretly anyway).

Well, now that we've made it not a secret, make sure to read this well-done story by Jessica Terrell, "Well-Educated and Undocumented" which profiles one of our bloggers.

Ab540 passed in 2001 and was implemented in 2002--let's see--add four or five years to that--and oh, that means the first generation of Ab540 students began graduating just a couple years ago.

This article clearlys shows why we need the DREAM Act passed now. AB540 was one step towards equal access to education, but now we need legalization so that DREAMers can put their degrees to use.

Let's see what the United States will be missing out on by not passing the DREAM Act:
There are three Ab540 students who went on to law school, two are studying in Los Angeles and one is in Seattle. There are three other students who are getting their Ph.D.'s at UC Santa Barbara, Arizona State University and Brown University. I know of two others who are or have gotten their teaching credentials (in math!) and Master's in Education at UCLA and want to teach for LAUSD--a third, received her Master's in Education from Harvard. We have in our hands a future architect who is studying in Los Angeles, and two future doctors--one who is doing a post-bac program at UC Davis and another who is getting her Master's in Public Health at Columbia. And of course, we have two awesome interns doing DREAM Act work in LA--one future journalist and another future lawyer. These are just the folks I know of. I'm sorry to all the students who I forgot to mention; there's just so many! I've heard of others who have received graduate degrees from American University, Cal State Fullerton, Northridge, and Long Beach, among others schools. Email us if you'd like a shout out!