June 2, 2006

Resident Hopes

By KELLY FIELD

Illegal immigrants at American colleges carry big dreams into an uncertain future

Gabriel Martinez has made up his mind: He is not going to live in fear of being deported.

So when the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in December that would make his presence in this country a felony, Mr. Martinez, an illegal immigrant and prelaw student at the City University of New York, boarded a bus bound for Washington, D.C. There, he joined 30 other CUNY students to protest the

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