Dear Editor:
I would like to say that I am an undocumented college-bound student who arrived in the
US under a tourist visa when I was four. Since then, I
have been living in California as an undocumented
person. Since I arrived, it was to my understanding,
until lately, that I was a natural-born citizen. Thus
I have been living almost all of my life under the
assumption that I was a legal citizen until my mother
chose to inform me otherwise when she decided I was
ready. Looking at my lifelong conduct as a law-abiding
student with a clean record, one would expect that I
would share the same rights and protections as any
American citizen. This is not the case. As of late I
had to endure unnecessary hassles by the office of the
registrar at a UC school pertaining to the status of
my citizenship. Now I must prove the status of a green
card I cannot apply for, or face dropping out of
college in the winter semester. And for most of my
life I have faced the vague, unexplained danger of
being deported to an unknown country for a status that
I, as a child, was not responsible for. That I deserve
the same benefits from a post-secondary education as
any law-abiding citizen of the US would, I support the
passage of the Student Adjustment Act.
Name Not Provided
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