Md. DREAM Act passage inspires hope for national immigration reform | The Raw Story: Misael Garcia, 22, wants to go to school, major in business and open his own restaurant someday. Though he admits that he didn’t grow up thinking he was going to go to college, he was eventually encouraged that he could do it. But when he went to the Community College of Baltimore, he discovered he didn’t qualify for in-state tuition, even though he’d been living in Maryland since he was 12.
“It was a really shocking moment,” he told Raw Story on Thursday.
Garcia became involved with Casa de Maryland, which worked to pass the Maryland DREAM Act. The measure, passed by the legislature last year and on Tuesday’s ballot for a referendum vote, allows undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at the state’s public universities. The state passed the measure 58 to 42 percent.
