Immigrant students without legal status struggle to pay for college
By Manon Lane
Jazmin Ramirez always wanted to go to college, but it wasn't until she was a junior in high school that she realized it might not be possible.
“I always knew I was undocumented, but I never actually understood what that meant until my junior year of high school when I started applying, or looking into colleges,” said Ramirez, a freshman social justice major, as she stood in front of her peers and gave a student’s perspective at the G92 Immigration Forum hosted last month by the J.V. Morsch Center for Social Justice.
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