“Stay in school. Work hard. Make good grades. If you do those things, you can go to college and earn a good living.” All over America, teachers repeat this in their classrooms. Coaches say it, too. So do parents, counselors and almost everyone. What would you do if your children would be left out without the chance of attending college, and being successful in life?
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the children of illegal immigrants only have a right to a free Kinder to 12th grade education, but the court didn’t extend the right to higher education. For Alfonso Gomez, my cousin, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, the debate about whether an undocumented student has a right to attend