Latino Students Dream Bigger than DREAM Act

Since when does a people in vast numbers (12 million plus), who lie in the margins ask for a reduction in college fees instead of a real dream? A dream where Latino students not only get instate tuition but instate enrollment that reflects the size of our population.

In California, new UCs and CSUs should be getting erected right now, just to accommodate the intelligence and potential of our people. "Hispanic" students are now more than half of the public school system, yet that number dwindles right around high school graduation. The stories of a few successful undocumented students distract us from the fact that half of our men are in prison and the other half are on their way — completely as intelligent and capable as the rest of us.

Undocumented students could climb their way through college and easily through life because they have created a formula and have followed it that allows them to recognize the amount of potential that is required. A formula that has been heavily and institutionally kept from the rest of the Raza student population.

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