Students advocate for Dream Act in D.C.
By Blake Stewart
Eight Trevecca students and two faculty members attended an annual conference in Washington D.C. last week to meet with lawmakers to advocate for Congress to pass a clean Dream Act.
League of United Latin American Citizens or (LULAC) hosts an annual conference for college students called Emerge, a multi-day Latino leadership conference that provides college students with public policy briefings on issues like public health, education and immigration.
“None of us have been to the conference before, so this was a new experience for us," said Sofia Guerrero, president of Futuro.
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