When Gloria Alcantar came to the United States 22 years ago, she imagined the golden opportunities she had seen in the movies. Instead, trapped in a legal battle over a 15-year-old immigration law, she feels she never got a fair chance.
Like hundreds of thousands of immigrants in a decades-long legal dispute over the 1986 immigration amnesty law, Alcantar says she could have earned more money, secured health insurance and visited family in Mexico--if only she'd been granted a green card.
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