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Final exams may be the least of some college students worries after graduation they face a bigger obstacle acting out their status as illegal immigrants.
-- Noel Newton has more.
While most of coming grads are resting for their big day.
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These GT student dressed in their caps and gowns to -- -- -- -- future.
You still to be recognized as he beats the faces in the crowd -- in the country illegally -- they overcame the odds and got their degrees and I -- eager to end an eight by eat at -- some Lopez has three major industry in our courts despite her 3.3 average she will not be able to get a job but.
-- -- Her parents abandon her in Guatemala at seven she was then kidnapped and spend some for high school years homeless it's so difficult because -- I'm sending him long.
Our news and -- the Danielle Kendall -- -- mom brought him to Austin for Mexico when he was twelve.
They were -- -- -- that you knew -- -- Texas that the best in -- recent in this text and I told her.
When they gonna go there.
He wants to teach middle -- but -- application for legal status will take twelve more year -- on the edge of the cliff and I don't know what I'm gonna make -- is seen.
He's on the solely somersault I don't know I'm glad I'm I gonna do these.
Graduates are counting on the passage of the DREAM Act or development relief and education for alien minors.
-- passed and document -- youths will get a six year long conditional path to citizenship.
The requires completion of the college green for two years of military service -- want to feel compassion.
And then that's right that's that's -- right reactions feel compassion.
To feel for these people young conservatives of Texas member Tony MacDonald will also -- -- diploma this weekend.
He does not support -- and document -- classmates temporary citizenship.
This limited form of amnesty is still an amnesty is still provides an incentive for more people come here illegally.
It lets people get off the hook for their criminal actions don't.
That was fox is -- -- Newton reporting in 2010 there were an estimated 161000.
Illegal immigrants enrolled in US colleges.
