Posted on 05/05/2015 10:02:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
To U.S. citizens, state and federal laws can be dizzying. To someone here without legal documentation, it can be far worse: intimidating, frightening and limiting.
Santa Rosa Junior College’s new Dream Center, which marked its grand opening Monday, aims to become a safe, supportive, one-stop shop for undocumented students and potential students as they explore their educational future.
There are more than 900 undocumented students at SRJC, some of whom didn’t know they weren’t American citizens until they began to think about higher education. They hail from Mexico, Canada, China and even Russia, school officials said.
Enrollment at the college totaled approximately 27,000 students last year. White students make up the majority, accounting for about 54 percent of enrollment, while Latino students are the fastest growing ethnic group, accounting for about 31 percent of the student body, according to campus statistics from last year. The largest number of international students at the college, meanwhile, come from Asia.
Ricardo Navarrette, vice president of SRJC student services, said he hopes students will feel safe coming to the center. The facility is the most public symbol so far of the increasingly greater effort the college has put into outreach to prospective and enrolled students who are undocumented.
It is envisioned that students or potential students with questions about their immigration status and possible college future will start their inquiries at the Dream Center.
“We’re kind of a triage center,” Vazquez said. Immigrants will be advised about work permits under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival policy, as well as possible college funding options and the SRJC enrollment process in general.
DACA, advanced by the Obama administration, delays immigration enforcement and opens up access to other aid programs for some young immigrants.
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F you too, sweetie.
Any public monies going to SRJC need to be withheld.
Take your sorry ass back to mexico, and make YOUR government pay for YOUR education.
Neither the US, nor any US citizen or US entity, owe you shit! Except a one-way permanent ticket back to mexico.
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