DREAM Act Enters New Phase Among Certain Progressive States: Education may be a ticket to upward socioeconomic mobility for most college graduates, but Daniela Alulema’s bachelor’s degree in accounting hasn’t gotten her far. She says her status as an undocumented immigrant has forced her to put her career plans on hold.
For nearly a decade Congress has failed to pass a bill — the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — that would grant Alulema legal residence and free her from a life in the shadows. So Alulema, like other activists, is looking to her state for help. Administrators and faculty at New York schools and leaders at government agencies signed a petition that Alulema and other organizers put together, but to no avail.
