PHILADELPHIA — When Belen Sisa was in high school and her friends were landing their first jobs, getting driver’s licenses and making plans for college, she was making excuses. Sisa, whose parents illegally immigrated from Argentina when she was 6, hid that fact from her friends in Florence. “People would ask me, ‘Why […]
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WINDHAM, Conn. — Ivonne Barcenas grew up in the hometown of the University of Georgia and had hopes of studying there — until she found out that immigrants without permanent legal status are prohibited from attending the state’s top public universities. Instead Barcenas, whose family immigrated to the United States […]
By Randall Chase DOVER, Del. — Delaware State University is joining with a national scholarship program to increase college opportunities for immigrant students living in the United States without permanent legal status. Gov. Jack Markell joined school officials and former Washington Post chairman and CEO Donald Graham on Tuesday to […]