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A combination of Califor-nia legislation and an exec-utive order from President Barack Obama have made college a more reachable re-ality for many students.

In June 2012, Obama signed an executive order enacting “Deferred Action for Early Childhood Ar-rivals,” which grants tem-porary residence to im-migrants who came to the United States before the age of 16.

Students in California who qualify for DACA can

then go on to apply for the California DREAM Act.

“(DACA) has allowed me to be more independent and help my family out,” said Miriam Lopez, a sociology and engineering double ma-jor. “I can now purchase my school supplies, clothes and other necessities. I can help out my parents in case they need something.”

Lopez receives financial aid through the Califor-nia DREAM Act, and as a DACA recipient, was able to get a paid internship.

The legislation has opened doors for students who pre-viously were forced to defer their college experience.

Louis Ramirez was ac-cepted to CSUF in fall 2013, before the California

DREAM Act was enacted. He did not receive financial aid and declined the accep-tance. Now, however, he re-applied to CSUF, and if ac-cepted again, he plans on attending.

Some scholarships are designated for specific ex-penses. The CSUF AB 540 Book Scholarship grants $500 to assist with the cost of books for AB 540 students.

At the community col-lege level, AB 540 students are eligible for the Board of Governors Fee Waiver, which allows qualified ap-plicants to waive enrollment fees. In addition, individual colleges provide their own funding assistance to quali-fying applicants.

At Fullerton College, the Dream Team Scholarship is a $2,500 scholarship of-fered to both continuing and transfer AB 540 students.

The scholarship is offered through the Fullerton Col-lege Foundation and was awarded to seven students last semester, said Claudia Stone, Fullerton College Student Services specialist.

Stone works in the EOPS office and serves on the se-lection committee for the scholarship.

“We do look at GPA, but a big part of what we look at is what the student has done to be involved with the com-munity,” Stone said. “We also want to see what chal-lenges they’ve faced and successfully overcome.”

With so much discus-sion about immigration and the DREAM Act, a larg-er, economic picture can get lost in the constant flow of information.

The Pew Research Center found that this year, immi-gration ranked 16th out of 20 policies in terms of how many people said it should be a top priority for the president and Congress. Of respondents, 41 percent considered the top-ic a top priority, up 2 percent from last year, compared to the 80 percent who consid-er strengthening the nation’s economy as the top concern.

The Legislative Analyst’s Office found in a 2011 study that by 2016-2017, expanding financial aid program eligibil-ity will cost the state rough-ly $65 million. The first year, depending on participation, is expected to cost the state $13

million, with an additional $50 million in costs expected by 2016-2017.

With the passage of the California DREAM Act in 2011, and its subsequent ap-plication in 2012, millions across the country were pro-vided greater access to edu-cation. Despite criticism for high initial costs, numerous studies have shown that this legislation will benefit the economy, both directly and indirectly.

Many critics have attribut-ed the high number of peo-ple living in the United States while undocumented and that opportunities like this will only increase the immigra-tion problem.

Undocumented residents accounted for 5.1 percent of the labor force nationwide in 2012. In California, they ac-counted for 9 percent of the state’s labor force.

A study by the Joint Com-mittee on Taxation within the Congressional Budget Of-fice found that the DREAM Act would increase reve-nue by $2.3 billion between

2011-2020.Pew Research’s Hispanic

Trend Project found that the

number of unauthorized im-migrants living in the Unit-ed States fell in 2007 when

the recession began, but has since stabilized with 11.3 mil-lion residents in 2013. Of that

amount, 61 percent have lived in the country for at least a decade.

CSUF and community college students benefit from legisla-tion and executive action

DARRELL KINGDaily Titan

The DREAM Act is projected to increase revenue by more than $2 billion by 2020

ROSELYNNE REYESDaily Titan

DREAM Act could bring in billions

Resources make college a reality

5.1 PERCENT OF THE LABOR FORCE NATIONWIDE (2012)

9 PERCENT OF THE STATE’S LABOR FORCE (2012)

2.3 BILLIONINCREASE IN REVENUE BETWEEN 2011 - 2020

11.3 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE IN THE U.S.

The revenue brought in as a result of the DREAM Act policies would increase tax revenue by $2.3 billion, according to a study by the Joint Committee on Taxation within the Congressional Budget Office.

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With so much at stake, navigating a complex legal system is a major challenge to undocumented students–and a slew of myths and misconceptions only further complicate the process.

Among these laws is As-sembly Bill 540, a law passed by the California Legislature in 2001, that changed higher education in California by lowering tui-tion costs for certain groups of students.

The law gives some non-resident and undocumented students the opportunity to pay in-state rates instead of out-of-state rates for college tuition if they meet certain criteria.

Students must have at-tended school at Califor-nia institutions for three or more years, have earned a diploma or its equiva-lent from a California high school and must be enroll-ing or enrolled at an accred-ited institution of higher learning.

They must also sign an affidavit indicating their in-tent to become legal resi-dents as soon as possible.

But there’s a lot more to AB 540 than its ba-sic requirements, said Ti-tan Dreamers Resource Center Coordinator Henoc Preciado.

He said the resource center–which opened last spring–has served an esti-mated 4,205 students, fac-ulty, staff and community members.

However, only about 800 of those individuals actually

qualify for AB 540. Preciado said one of his

major challenges is dissem-inating correct informa-tion about the law to center visitors.

He said many individu-als come into his office un-familiar with how AB 540 works, or whether they are eligible.

One of the more common misconceptions, he said, is the interchangeable use of the terms “undocumented,” and “AB 540.” It’s import-ant to remember that not ev-ery undocumented student actually qualifies for AB 540 and not every AB 540 students is undocumented, he stressed.

Preciado said students also sometimes assume that because they are undocu-mented and meet minimum requirements, they are au-tomatically eligible for AB 540 without filling out any sort of paperwork, but that is not the case.

Mark Hao, a graduate as-sistant at the center, said many students are misin-formed because they were receiving the wrong in-formation from their high school or community col-lege, or that there wasn’t any information dissemi-nated in the first place.

“We’ve had students who didn’t even know that there were resources available to them,” Hao said. “Some-times they just didn’t know, or nobody has talked to them about it.”

Hao said an unfortunate difficulty of AB 540 is that it’s extremely restrictive in its requirements and conse-quently makes it difficult for students to qualify.

“We’ve run into a situ-ation where a student was attending two and a half years of high school here in

California and because she was fast-tracked for gradu-ation in high school, she’s not able to utilize the AB 540 status,” Hao said.

But Preciado remains hopeful for the future of California legislation.

He pointed to recently passed changes to AB 540 that will now allow the state to consider time spent in el-ementary school and mid-dle school for qualification purposes.

He said the passage of AB 130 and AB 131–two parts of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act–is an-other important develop-ment that will pave the way for helping undocumented individuals.

The changes allow undoc-umented and non-resident documented students who meet certain requirements to apply for scholarships at colleges and universities.

AB 130 is the section of the DREAM Act that al-lows students who meet AB 540 criteria to apply for non-state funded schol-arships for colleges and universities.

AB 131 allows students who meet AB 540 criteria to apply for state-funded financial aid, institutional grants, community college fee waivers, the Cal Grant and the Chafee Grant.

Students interested in ap-plying can access The Cali-fornia DREAM Act “Dream Application,” which is available at CSAC.gov.

Completion of the ap-plication is required for the California Student Aid Commission to process and determine financial aid for AB 540 eligible students.

Preciado said he’s hap-py that AB 540 and its lat-er counterparts have made the educational process for some students easier.

However, he said he still sees a system that is prob-lematic, where educational barriers still exist.

“When we think about laws and policies, we need to think about the intent; what is the purpose?” Pre-ciado said. “In my ideal world, if students–regard-less of immigration sta-tus–want to pursue high-er education, we should let them.”

Some students miss out on available resources due to lack of clear information

ALEX GROVES& CYNTHIA PLEITEZ

Daily Titan

Demystifying the DREAM • Passed in 2001• Allows qualifying non-resident and

undocumented students to pay in-state tuition

Changes• AB 130: Allows AB 540 students to

apply for non-state scholarships• AB 131: Allows AB 540 students to apply

for select state funded scholarships

AB 540

More than a month before Obama’s executive order on immigration accountability was announced, Gov. Jer-ry Brown signed three bills into law designed to aid

undocumented residents.The trio of laws allow un-

documented residents to ap-ply for government funded student loans, earn profes-sional licenses and expand-ed eligibility for students to waive non-resident fees at state universities.

“While Washington waf-fles on immigration, Cal-ifornia is forging ahead,” Brown said when he signed

the bills. “I’m not waiting.”The political ramifica-

tions of these bills may still be up for debate, but the real life implications for undoc-umented individuals is more obvious.

“These people, our neigh-bors, our classmates, our friends, they did not come here in search of a free ride or an easy life. They came to work and study, to

serve in our military and above all, contribute to American success,” Obama said during his Nov. 20 announcement.

That sentiment was echoed by Daniel Bravo, a junior business administra-tion and computer science double major at CSUF who is undocumented. To Bravo, immigration legislation is more than just politics–it’s

personal.“It’s not about reading it

and seeing it in the news. It’s about my life. I have to live through this every sin-gle day,” Bravo said. “This dictates if I go to school, how I go to school, how I get to work and where I work.”

Bravo works for Orange County Congregation Com-munity Organization. The

nonprofit trains and mo-bilizes communities for various issues, including immigration.

Bravo said his work in-spired him to share his story and he encourages others to do the same.

“Outing yourself as un-documented could pose le-gal risks, but if we don’t, people won’t understand,” Bravo said.

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CSUF students share stories of how California laws factor into their daily lives

JAMIE CORPUZDaily Titan

Trio of laws aid undocumented students

Because they both met requirements of either three years in an American high school or an Ameri-can GED certificate, Zeval-los and Bravo both qual-ified for the non-resident tuition fee waiver when the California DREAM Act first passed.

Now that the eligibility has been expanded to in-clude elementary school experience, more undocu-mented individuals will be exempt from paying thou-sands of dollars in interna-tional student fees.

Zevallos and Bravo both use scholarships to help pay for their tuition, but must pay out of pocket for the amount the scholarships don’t cover. Until Senate

Bill 1210, undocumented people could not qualify for government-funded stu-dent loans.

The law allows CSUs and UCs to issue loans of up to $4,000 per academic year to students who are el-igible under the California DREAM Act.

It’s not much compared to the cost of graduate school, Zevallos said, but she’ll take advantage of the funds available. She hopes to pursue a gradu-ate degree in student affairs and is currently consider-ing two programs that offer full rides if she works on campus.

Zevallos’ father just fin-ished his GED certifi-cate and recently received

notice that he has quali-fied for the AB 540 waiver. This means that the Zeval-los family will include three college students: Katherine, her father and her brother.

Bravo works full time to earn enough to hope-fully graduate debt free, while his parents help pay for his tuition. Commuting to work every day is risky for his father because, as an undocumented person, he is unable to get a driv-er’s license. This becomes a particular issue when his father’s work calls him out past San Clemente through the U.S. Customs and Bor-der Protection.

A law passed last year that goes into effect in

January will allow undocu-mented individuals to apply for driver’s licenses. This provides more stability for both families. Their status has allowed both Zeval-los and Bravo to have driv-er’s licenses, although their parents have been driving illegally.

Despite these new laws, Bravo believes that long-term solutions still need to be addressed.

“We need comprehensive immigration reform at the national level that includes a pathway to citizenship because that’s the just thing to do,” Bravo said. “We pay our taxes and contrib-ute to our communities; we should be protected from deportations.”

California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gar-dens) proposed a bill which prohibits the state’s Depart-ment of Consumer Affairs from discriminating based on citizenship or immigra-tion status when issuing pro-fessional licenses.

The new law allows workers to submit individ-ual tax identifications num-bers in lieu of social security numbers.

The fathers of both Zeval-los and Bravo were profes-sionals in their native coun-tries–Zevallos is an electrical

engineer in Peru and Bravo’s a contractor in Mexico.

Zevallos’ parents both had degrees and professional li-censes, which were not trans-ferrable to the U.S. When her family’s visa expired, they stayed and took what ever work they could find. It was better than what they could find in Peru, Zevallos said.

Her father worked for years in a manufacturing plant un-til he was injured. Since then, he has been unemployed for four years, but does not qual-ify for disability.

Bravo’s father is an

electrician, but could not qualify for his contractor’s license. His father was work-ing when the recession hit and was laid off. Soon, they couldn’t afford to live in their house anymore.

Unable to find work, he be-gan using another contrac-tor’s license illegally for hun-dreds of dollars a month in order to qualify for jobs.

Since the new law applies to the Contractors State Li-cense Board, Bravo’s father will now be able to quali-fy for his own contractor’s license. Bravo’s mother, a

hairdresser, could also ben-efit if she receives formal training.

With the 40 job sectors in the consumer affairs depart-ment now able to grant pro-fessional licenses, new pos-sibilities for undocumented people have opened up, Bra-vo said.

“It gives me a little more hope and motivation to con-tinue going to school because it’s difficult knowing that once you finished you still can’t do what you wanted to do,” Bravo said.

The executive order passed by Obama is bro-ken down into three parts. Two sections in one of the latter segments of the or-der expands Deferred Ac-tion for Childhood Ar-rivals to include any immigrant who arrived before Jan. 1, 2010 and ex-tends DACA relief from two to three years. It also offers a new deferred ac-tion program for parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.

The programs are

expected to impact near-ly 4.4 million individuals, including Bravo.

Bravo has benefitted from DACA since 2012. His younger brother, how-ever, is a U.S. citizens meaning Bravo’s parents will qualify for the new deferred action program.

For some, however, the program does not go far enough.

The parents of Kather-ine Zevallos, an undoc-umented student study-ing human services at

CSUF, do not qualify for DACA.

Zevallos and several other undocumented stu-dents gathered at the Ti-tan Dreamers Resource Center to watch Obama’s announcement.

“It was disappointing. We thought Obama was going to give some kind of relief to DACA parents,“ she said. “There were a lot of tears, because we knew that (Obama’s) message was not for us.”

Joy Hoffman, director

of Diversity Initiatives and Resource Centers, and Henoc Preciado, re-source center coordina-tor, were both present and plan to be involved.

“We want to explore what we can do to con-tinue the conversation, because the conversa-tion doesn’t just end with President Obama’s an-nouncement,” Preciado said. “Obama’s announce-ment recognized that it’s not just youth who are undocumented.”

Bill allows for professional licenses

Presidential executive order impacts millions

Law allows loans to students

• Can register with tax ID instead of Social Security number

• Forty sectors open to undocumented people

Professional licenses (SB 1159)

• Additional resources for border security

• Court reforms to speed up deportation backlog

• Prioritize deportation of criminals• Expand DACA relief to three years• Deferred action for parents of

citizens and legal residents.

Executive order

• Undocumented students qualify for state loans

• $9.2 million for new state-funded loan program

• Up to $4,000 per semester per student

DREAM loans (SB 1210)

DREAM Act amendment (AB 2000)

• Elementary school experience counts toward qualification for fee waiver

Since its opening in April, the Titan Dreamers Resource Center has been a haven for students to turn to when they need to con-nect with those who share similarities in their lives and upbringing.

The center is a place where students can laugh and cry together without any reserve. They are able to speak out against injus-tices that personally affect them or others they know.

The walls of the center are covered with their art-work, expressing their in-terpretations of what it is like being or knowing an undocumented person.

What these students feel in their hearts is displayed for all to see, to show they desire the same oppor-tunities as documented students.

The Dreamers Center is not only for the undocu-mented. Students of var-ious races and ethnicities are welcome.

Students who use the Dream Center are highly appreciative of what it has to offer for them.

Gladys Cardenas, a fre-quent user, finds that the center has a positive im-pact on students because of the coordinators who work together to aid students and their experiences at Cal State Fullerton.

“You ask for any help and they do their best, even if it’s not their subject,” she said. “You can talk about different majors and I like that they are very hands on.”

Cardenas contin-ued to come to the Titan

Dreamers Center because she saw the relationship between students and coor-dinators. She admired the way coordinators took the initiative to create a family environment.

“I have that feeling that I’m at home with people I can trust and they trust you,” she said.

Titan Dreamers Center Coordinator Henoc Pre-ciado makes sure students continue to feel a sense of comfort while using the center. He also uses his position to help direct students where to go for forms, financial aid and more.

“Navigating our commu-nity, searching for scholar-ships and getting connect-ed to different groups (are some of the things students look to me for in terms of help),” he said.

Preciado is aware of the sensitivity surrounding the backgrounds of some stu-dents stemming from his own personal interactions during his childhood, and feels passionate about the topic.

He grew up in an envi-ronment where the major-ity of the people he knew

were undocumented.Some of the students

who use the center are like Preciado and do what they can to assist students and their families, like fresh-man Miriam Lopez, who works off campus in a community group called Orange County Immigrant Youth United.

Lopez is involved in a lot of activism in her city of Santa Ana and quickly found herself as a member of the organization.

“I thought it was pret-ty cool how there was or-ganizing around undocu-mented people’s rights,” she said.

She even brings in some of her community work to the Titan Dreamers Cen-ter by informing others of events her group is holding and other beneficial infor-mation, such as new laws.

“We are knowledgeable about programs such as AB 540 and the Health for All campaign,” she said.

She hasn’t been to any programs at the Dream-ers Center because of class conflicts, but now as a con-tinuous user, she plans to attend some in the near future.

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Cal State Fullerton stu-dent Alexis Guzman spent much of his time dedicat-ed to making students on campus feel welcome and informed.

He has spent countless hours involved with Her-manos Unidos, the Associa-tion for Intercultural Aware-ness and the Alliance of Students for an Equal Edu-cation among other clubs on campus.

He has also spent a lot of time outside of campus teaching undocumented stu-dents about the resources that are available to them when entering college.

Guzman said he knows a lot about the struggles in-coming college freshmen and undocumented students face. He came to CSUF as both of those things, when the odds were stacked against him and resources were scarce.

He lost the opportunity to go to Stanford, his dream school, when officials there discovered he was undoc-umented and rescinded the full-ride offer they had origi-nally offered him.

It was a crushing blow for Guzman, an “A” student with a 4.6 GPA at Ontario High School, who checked the mail every day to see whether he got accepted into Stanford.

“I was really devas-tated because all of my hard work to the commu-nity, to my studies, my GPA, my honors,” he said. “Based on my merits, why couldn’t they treat me the

same as a student who was documented?”

Despite the setback, he didn’t give up.

“At that time, it hit me re-ally hard and I was like, ‘I don’t care where I end up going, but I’m going to go somewhere,’” he said.

That’s when Guzman de-cided to go to CSUF. As a first-time freshman, he looked for resources that could help him prosper at the university and discov-ered Alliance of Students for an Equal Education, a club dedicated to helping stu-dents who were AB 540 by designation.

“They would help me not only with scholarships, but also with study tips,” he said.

He said he really enjoyed

being part of the club so much that he purposely scheduled his math classes in a way that would allow him to attend its meetings.

Through that club, Guz-man found EOP, the early education opportunity pro-gram at University Hall and

tutoring centers on campus.Using those resources,

he earned two scholarships. However, he still strug-gled to make ends meet just to pay for his schooling since he couldn’t apply for

institutional aid. AB 131, the law that

would allow him to do that, hadn’t gone into effect yet.

“So that’s when I start-ed with my tutoring job that I have over in Ontario and then I was selling food also to people that I know so that

I could pay for tuition,” Guz-man said, adding that he did both jobs for four years as tuition continued to rise.

Today, things are much different for him. He is reaching the end of his

college career as a double major in Spanish and math-ematics at CSUF.

He’s made great friend-ships and his financial bur-dens have been lightened thanks to AB 131. But Alex-is is still actively involved in campus organizations and his community.

He created Hermanos Unidos and works as a lead-er within the club because he wants to provide Latino stu-dents with a resource where they would be supported and helped, much like what he had when he was a member of the AB 540 club.

He said he works to in-form students about AB 540 at his former high school be-cause it’s important that un-documented students are aware of their resources.

“He’s very eager for change, which is what I love about him,” said Christina Guzman, a friend of Guz-man. “He sees a problem and tries to figure out a way around it and says, ‘hey, how do we fix this?’”

Christina said Guzman was instrumental in helping her during one of those high school sessions, when he ex-plained to her that she was AB 540 and saved her thou-sands in out-of-pocket ex-penses that she would have had to pay otherwise.

“He’s helped me in so many ways when it comes to college applications and even paperwork,” she said. “In other words, he’s been the type of guy that I can re-ally trust.”

Eddy Giron, one of Her-manos Unidos’ general members, said Guzman is a leader, motivator and hard worker. He said that as co-chair for the club, he regular-ly checks up on members to make sure they’re up to date on club paperwork, but also that they’re doing well.

When Giron was strug-gling academically, it was Guzman that offered him ad-vice and encouraged him to try his best in school.

“He was motivating me not to give up; to keep work-ing hard,” Giron said. “Right now, I’m doing way better.”

As Guzman continues his educational journey, he is looking to take on new chal-lenges. He said he wants to go to grad school to get a master’s in student affairs in another state. After that, he says he would like to be in-volved in higher education to make it more equitable.

“I want to make sure that everyone gets the same op-portunities; the same educa-tion,” he said.

Advocating for equal educationAs an undocumented student, Alexis Guzman tries to make a difference for other students.

ALEX GROVESDaily Titan

Alexis Guzman founded Hermanos Unidos to provide Latino students with a resource where they could find support and help. MARISELA GONZALEZ / DAILY TITAN

ALEXIS GUZMANHermanos Unidos Founder

Based on my merits, why couldn’t they treat me the same as a student who was documented?

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Click. Click. Click. The sound of her heels on the tile was all the audience could hear but within she was screaming with ex-citement. Her bronze skin beamed with joy and peace circled in her eyes. She worked tirelessly for 27 years with the hope of one day calling herself a United States citizen and her body shook with eagerness as she raised her hand for the pledge.

*****“I said I want nooo toma-

toes, nooo onions, and nooo lettuce,” the impatient cus-tomer dragged out her sen-tence over the phone.

Evangelina (Eva) scur-ried frantically to find her list of vegetables in English and in Spanish.

“I’m sorry, one time more please,” Eva repeated back to the customer.

The customer repeated her order extra slow this time.

Oh si, no lechuga. Eva thought to herself as she found lettuce on the list.

“Okay, thank you. Your order for to go,” said Eva as she hung up the phone with a proud smile.

Evangelina and Salvador (Sal) Gutierrez laid on ei-ther side of their one-year-old son and stretched their jackets to cover him with warmth. The cement floor frosted their cheeks as they laid on the floor of a friend’s garage who prom-ised them a place to sleep in America. When they made the decision to come to the United States, the promise was a blessing from God. But their minds raced with doubt as they pushed cotton in the ears of their 1 year old to protect him from the ants, rats and cockroach-es that shared the icy floor with them.

Thankfully it was not a difficult task for the Gutier-rez to find work. Their first job was cleaning up homes that had been burned in fires. The task of packing up the belongings of others was not difficult, but fac-ing the constant reminder of the clothing, blankets, mattresses and food they

lacked was excruciating. However, many of the home owners donated items to Eva and Sal.

After endless months of working, the Gutierrez fam-ily finally saved enough money to rent a room in their friend’s home.

They both found a second job at a carniceria where they could again work side by side. The sound of the butcher saw was excruciat-ing and lifting tons of meat was a struggle for Eva, but the greatest challenge she faced was leaving her son with a recently new friend so that she could work. The sacrifice of not seeing her son for such long hours was almost enough to make Eva abandon her “Ameri-can Dream”, but their hard work was paying off.

Just a year after living in their friend’s home, the Gutierrez family was able to save enough money to rent their first one-bedroom apartment. And, just after signing the lease, their su-pervisor at the carniceria offered Eva a serving po-sition at his new Mexican restaurant. She beamed at the opportunity to leave the meat business behind, but the restaurant would be an accelerated push to learn-ing the English language.

Shortly after, they heard about a late amnesty being offered to immigrants who desired to obtain citizen-ship. But the cost for a law-yer was daunting. With the help of many new friends and coworkers, they were able to apply for a loan, hire a lawyer and obtain their first work permits.

Their hands burned with excitement when their first work permits were handed to them. It wasn’t until they received their first social security cards that they felt they had truly struck gold– something shifted with this new achievement. They were no longer unknown, they had a number.

In celebration of their achievements, Sal and Eva decided to use their tour-ists visas to take a vacation to Acapulco. After they re-turned, Eva soon learned that she was pregnant with her second child.

Although many fears about money and the ability to work immediately bom-barded Eva, the first feeling

felt was excitement. This child would be the first U.S. citizen in the family.

Eight months after Stephanie Gutierrez was born, Eva became preg-nant with her final son. After Andy Gutierrez was born, Sal picked up a third job at Bimbo Bakeries, all while attending com-munity college in order to learn English and earn an education.

Sal began working for the company as a janitor and because of his dedication and hard work, he got ex-pedited through the ranks to HR manager. With this uncanny promotion, Bimbo offered to move the Gutier-rez to Temecula and assist them in buying their first new home.

It felt as though Eva’s American dream had sure-ly come true with the pur-chase of this five-bedroom, three-bathroom home. It came complete with the big, beautiful kitchen Eva had always dreamed of and the gigantic one-acre back yard that the kids could have only dreamed about.

The only part of Orange County that Eva missed dearly was the group of friends that she had estab-lished, for they had be-come the family that she didn’t have throughout her journey in the U.S. There-fore, in order to assure they would never lose contact,

the Gutierrez decided to continue the thanksgiving tradition they had started while living in Anaheim.

This tradition consists of 30 friends and family mem-bers and begins around 11 a.m. with appetizers and drinks. Everyone spends the day drinking, eating and teaming up to play soccer, volleyball and volley soc-cer in their backyard. Then around 6 p.m. everyone rushes to the bathrooms, el-bows their way around the mirrors, skouers the count-ers for makeup and finds a corner to slip on their best attire.

Once everyone is looking their best, they find a seat around the table. But, just before the knife can meet the turkey, each loved one stands and states what they are thankful for. After din-ner, the night usually ends around 5 a.m. with the chil-dren begging their parents to turn down the karaoke machine and stop dancing.

“Everybody is saying that this is going to be the last Thanksgiving here at this house, but I don’t know. I trust in God and we are leaving everything in his hands. Maybe it will be the last time in this house, but we are always going to have Thanksgiving. No matter what place because a place didn’t make us. We made the place,” Eva said as she raised her glass as a newly

single woman. *****

When Eva’s documents of citizenship were handed to her she no longer possessed the perfect home, the com-forting marriage or the big backyard and yet, she beamed with pride.

Her journey to becom-ing an American citizen was not one of acquisition

but of triumph. The Amer-ican dream isn’t really what it has been painted to be. In reality, it is only an ide-al. An ideal so fierce that it causes warriors to rise in the midst of the most chal-lenging circumstances. An ideal that forced Evangelina to stretch her strength be-yond borders. An ideal that left her empowered.

An undocumented person gains citizenship after years of back-breaking labor

CIARA GUTIERREZDaily Titan

Professor gains American citizenship

Mother works to be integrated into society

Cal State Fullerton Ed-ucation Professor Julián Jefferies became a United States citizen this summer, marking the final step in his long journey as an undocu-mented immigrant.

Jefferies, who has been an ally of immigrant students for more than 15 years, said he faced many obstacles as an “on and off” undocu-mented student.

It was these obstacles that gave him a new perspective on how immigration status affects everyday lives and increased his approachabil-ity as a professor, he said.

Titan Dreamers Resource Center Coordinator Henoc Preciado said it is important to be supportive and help-ful to immigrant students. It can be difficult for students to disclose their immigra-tion status because of the legal nature of such a desig-nation, Preciado said.

“When they’re seeking that support, when they’re trying to find those folks on campus, how do you know someone is safe? How do you know that someone is able to support you?” Pre-ciado said.

CSUF graduate student

Nancy Gonzalez, who is working to get her master’s in social work, said that Jefferies constantly sup-ports her.

She attended a graduate studies workshop for a men-torship program and met Jefferies, who spoke briefly about his research on un-documented students.

Gonzalez approached Jef-feries and told him that she was interested in conduct-ing research, but that she would need a mentor. He eagerly obliged and offered his mentorship.

Even though many pro-fessors care for the strug-gles that undocumented students go through, Gon-zalez recognizes that it is difficult for them to actual-ly understand the situation. However, she said Jefferies is one of the few who can empathize.

It all began in Argentina, his native country.

Twenty-year-old Jefferies dreamed of studying abroad at a New York University because he was inspired by the ones he saw in the mov-ies. He quickly learned his dream was more complicat-ed than what appeared in Hollywood films.

“I couldn’t afford it,” Jef-feries said.

Despite the monetary discouragement, he did not give up his ambition of studying abroad. He

discarded the idea of New York and decided to apply to more affordable institu-tions. He landed a scholar-ship in a Boston university that would pay 75 percent of his college tuition.

Before embarking on the educational journey he longed for, he had to ob-tain a student visa that would allow him to study in the United States. To do that, he needed to prove he had enough money to support his stay during the two years he would be studying.

His father had his bank write a letter that stated he had enough resources, even though he didn’t.

With that letter, his visa was approved.

Two years later, Jefferies earned his degree in jour-nalism. However, he was no longer a full-time student and his visa expired.

“I had entered legally, but I was undocumented,” he said.

While he was in gradu-ate school, the only type of jobs he could find—because of his legal status—were in manual labor.

He was able to keep a full-time job painting hous-es and decided he would dedicate his whole summer to this job so that he could have enough money to ap-ply to a master’s program in the winter.

He was accepted by the University of Massachusetts and went back to school full time, his student visa reac-tivated. With the visa, he was able to work at the uni-versity, but only 20 hours per week, which was not enough to sustain him and pay for school.

“I had to work under the table,” Jefferies said.

As an undocumented worker, Jefferies came to a realization. The people he worked with were like him, except not as privileged. They all painted houses, but some were not as fortunate to attend school.

He finished his doctor-ate program and obtained his Ph.D. in education from Boston College. As a re-searcher, the focus of his career has been the impact that schools have on youth who have been historically underserved in education. He is particularly interest-ed in the lives of immigrant youths and their involve-ment in school.

Recently, Jefferies was part of a panel hosted by the Titan Dreamers Resource Center along with senior Eloisa Amador, a double major in human services and ethnic studies. The fo-cus was on misinforma-tion given to undocumented students.

While Jefferies em-phasized the importance

of educating staff, Ama-dor shared one of her experiences.

When she asked her high school counselor what she needed to do in order to at-tend college, her counselor responded, “You’re undocu-mented, so even if you make

it, it will be hard to pay be-cause you don’t get finan-cial aid,” Amador said.

Jefferies has published extensively on this issue.

“I am scarred by my ex-perience,” he said. “I will be talking about these is-sues for a long time.”

Professor’s journey as an undocumented student motivates students

MARISELA GONZALEZDaily Titan

Born in Argentina, Education Professor Julián Jefferies, struggled to pay for college as an undocumented student.

MARISELA GONZALEZ / DAILY TITAN

Evangelina Gutierrez worked at a butcher shop and as a housekeeper before she became a citizen of the U.S. CIARA GUTIERREZ / DAILY TITAN

President Barack Obama has taken the matters of immigration into his own hands. After six years of unsuc-cessful advances in immigration, the president laid out his plan to combat America’s immigration issues.

His three-step order will build on border enforcement and resources in order to reduce the amount of ille-gal crossings and speed the return of those who do cross over.

Furthermore, he claims this plan will help skilled immigrants to stay in the country, contribute to society and take the steps needed to deal with un-documented residents.

Obama failed to think about the future reaction this broad execu-tive action will have on the future of America.

The president mentioned that this plan would be the most fair way of taking action against immigration, but he failed to take into account a number of things regarding his “fair” plan.

For one, by taking executive action, Obama has set the precedent for the presidents that will take office after him.

Somewhere down the line, a Repub-lican president will order the suspen-sion of a law that would impact the entire U.S. No matter how unpopular or excessive the law is, that president could just point to Obama’s immigra-tion order as precedent to his or her own actions.

What the administration also failed to take into account is just how fair the action actually is for undocument-ed immigrants.

In his speech, he brought up fam-ilies often, and his plan promises that families who have resided in the

U.S. for more than five years can take steps to assume safe temporary stay in the U.S.

What about families of immigrants who have made root here, but have not been in the states for the stated five plus years? These families will still have to live in fear of deporta-tion and lurk in the shadows as stated many times in his speech.

Obama’s plan was heavily concen-trated on not breaking up families, but the fact of the matter is if your family hasn’t been in the U.S. for more than five years, the fear factor is still there.

Another problem is the total fair-ness of this plan. To go through the process of registering, contributing to the country, paying taxes and be-ing a member of the society only to have the fact of temporary stay lurk-ing over them cannot feel that great.

“It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently, or of-fer the same benefits that citizens re-ceive,” Obama said, in his speech.

So, you can get right with the law and contribute to the country by pay-ing your dues as citizens do, but you are still not one.

This plan comes with a lot of fine print. Just as there was with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, im-migrants who apply will have to take the responsibility of getting an under-standing of how it all works, a criti-cism CNN’s Ruben Navarrette point-ed out.

Obama’s approach and plan in deal-ing with immigration treats these in-dividuals as the ugly stepchild; you’re here, but you’ll never fully be part of the family.

If immigrants are a part of Amer-ican life, why not embrace them in a way that helps them truly feel a part of American life.

America has an immigration prob-lem and on Nov. 20, President Barack Obama gave a speech announc-ing his comprehensive plan con-cerning the nation’s current state of immigration.

The current system is a passive half-measure that leaves millions liv-ing in the shadows, with a fraction of its population unable to fully partici-pate and build the economy. Obama’s plan, while controversial, at least opens the door for this to change.

It will allow around 4.4 million im-migrants to stay temporarily in the U.S. and not be deported, but it’s im-portant to recognize the current sys-tem is not working.

The United States has close to $3 billion worth of resources and surplus military equipment and 19,000 agents employed on Border Patrol, yet illegal immigration is still an issue. Obama’s plan, which has drawn a lot of unnec-essary criticism, is designed to fix this broken system.

Critics also fail to note that, while controversial, Obama’s ex-ecutive order is not only legal but commonplace.

Former President Bill Clinton even argued this point, saying Obama’s actions weren’t a unilateral grab for power, but rather one in a long line of actions on immigration.

“As far as I can tell, every president in the modern era has issued some ex-ecutive action on immigration,” Clin-ton said, at a gala for The New Repub-lic. “So I imagine he’ll be on pretty firm legal ground.”

Clinton is right. Even Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush both used executive ac-tion authorities for the purpose of

immigration reform. When the U.S. Senate aimed to ex-

pand the capabilities of the Immigra-tion Reform and Control Act, the se-nior Bush implemented the Senate bill’s provisions himself.

Beside the nonexistent legality is-sues, another common fear is that the plan is basically a “get out of jail free” card for all undocumented people. Obama’s new plan does not grant citi-zenship to anyone who has ever snuck across the border. It instead re-priori-tizes which immigrants to deport.

The order involves full criminal background checks. There has been a history of misuse of executive or-ders, so the criticism is not unfound-ed. Still, other criticisms of the plan are less refined.

There is no plan that would please both sides, which is definitely ap-parent from watching deliberation in congress.

Inaction in Congress, particular-ly the House of Representatives, has arguably caused more problems than it’s solved.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz ar-gued on Fox News Sunday that his party should pass bills that would withhold funding to Obama’s latest executive order. He referred to the order as “Obama’s illegal amnesty,” making the title sound official.

Cruz was also the man who led the government shutdown last year in an attempt to block funds to another con-troversial executive plan, Obamacare. Depending on how Cruz and oth-er Republicans choose to respond to the order, another government shut-down is a real possibility, according to Reuters.

An executive order may be extreme, yes, but it is legal and seemingly one of the only options left when this is the climate of our Congress.

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TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

You may have high hopes about opening your heart and sharing your feelings today as the Moon harmonizes with romantic Venus and ex-cessive Jupiter. However, someone’s cold shoul-der might cause you to change.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

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Cal State Fullerton en-tered Wednesday night’s matchup at Pauley Pavil-lion knowing the UCLA Bruins would be one of the toughest opponents on their schedule.

They also had history on their side, as they had defeated the Bruins four years ago at the same arena, shocking the Bruin faith-ful on national television by a score of 68-65 in two overtimes.

Unfortunately, lightning would not strike twice for CSUF, who couldn’t estab-lish much of a presence this time around.

In fact, the Bruins came out hot and they took away Fullerton’s confidence ear-ly on.

It wasn’t a pretty start for the Titans, as their turnover woes continued against the seemingly quicker Bruins defense.

In total, the Titans had 16 turnovers, which led to 16 easy points for UCLA.

Fullerton’s lack of size was another apparent issue throughout the night, as they were outrebounded 50-34 by the larger Bruin frontcourt.

While this statistic was certainly inflated by the poor CSUF shooting, Head Coach Dedrique Taylor felt his team should have been more physical against their Pac-12 opponents.

“I think physically we’ve got to be better. I thought they had the size advantage in height, but physical-ly I felt we had an advan-tage,” Taylor said. “Unfor-tunately, we didn’t show that tonight, and that was disappointing.”

Alex Harris was a one-man wrecking crew for the otherwise stagnant Ti-tans offense early, pouring in eight points in the first half.

Unfortunately, his strong play on the offensive end did not continue over into the final 20 minutes, as he scored just two points in crunch time.

“It just wasn’t my day out there, I shot the ball pretty bad,” Harris said. “But I’ll get back in the gym and find my shot again.”

At the half, Fullerton trailed 40-23 with the game getting out of hand quickly.

The Bruins big men were dominant, as Tony Parker and Kevon Looney combined for 22 first half points compared to just eight points by the Fuller-ton big men.

CSUF shot just 26.7 per-cent from the floor, com-pared to a 50 percent clip

by the hometown Bruins.As bad as the first half

was for the Titans, the second half would prove to be just as rough, if not worse.

After it was all said and done, the Titans shot just 24 percent from the field, while UCLA shot 44 per-cent overall.

CSUF was just 4-for-20 from 3-point range, while their Pac-12 foes hit 8-of-19 shots from deep.

Bruin guards Norman

Powell and Bryce Alford frustrated the Titans’ de-fense all night, weaving in and out of the lanes while pouring in 18 and 14 points, respectively.

While the game ulti-mately ended in defeat for the visitors, Fullerton can use the experience as a growing point as the sea-son progresses.

It is unlikely the Titans will see as many talent-ed guards or big men as they saw Wednesday night,

which should help prepare them for less prestigious opponents in the coming weeks.

“We knew they were go-ing to be one of the most talented groups we faced all year, and unfortunate-ly we weren’t ready for them,” Harris said. “We just need to get better as the season goes on.”

The Titans will return to Titan Gym Saturday night when the Pepperdine Waves come to town.

CSUF defeated the Waves 78-64 in Malibu last season, and have a great chance to earn another vic-tory this weekend.

“Obviously we’ve got to regroup, we’ve got to find ourselves and our effort because it wasn’t present in this building tonight,” Tay-lor said. “Hopefully being in the confines of our own home will allow us to find that and come out with a better performance Satur-day night at 6 p.m.”

A stellar second half gave the Cal State Fuller-ton women’s basketball team their second consec-utive victory Wednesday against the winless Denver Pioneers.

The Titans were com-ing off a blowout victo-ry against New Mexico State at the Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic.

Four Titans scored dou-ble figures in that game.

It took a while for the Ti-tans to get going Wednes-day against a Denver team hungry for their first victo-ry of the season.

The Pioneers jumped to a 7-0 lead on CSUF at the 17:48 mark in the first half.

Tailer Butler made a 3-pointer to stop the bleed-ing and put Fullerton on the board.

Both teams struggled of-fensively in the first half, shooting below 30 percent from the field.

Denver carried a 29-24 lead at halftime.

The Titans were a whole new team in the second half.

They came out firing and quickly erased the defi-cit and took control of the game.

Once again, the seniors took over the game and sparked the second-half run.

Forward Kathleen Iwuo-ha scored 20 of her 24 points in the second half and Chante Miles scored 18 of her game-high 28 in the final 20 minutes.

“Chante and Kat were big again tonight,” Head Coach Daron Park said to FullertonTitans.com. “You have to work to win on the road. It’s nice to look out on the floor and know they are wearing the blue and orange.”

The Titans shot an astro-nomical 58 percent from

behind the arc in the sec-ond half, compared to Den-ver who shot just 1-for-11.

Samantha Logan made 3-of-4 3-point attempts in the second half, scoring all nine of her points from downtown.

Miles was 5-for-10 from three for the game, making three of those in the sec-ond half.

Fullerton outscored Den-ver 54-32 in the second half, leading them to a 78-61 win.

The 54 points were the most the Titans have scored in a half this season.

“Obviously, I’m really proud of our effort and ex-ecution in the second half,” Park said to FullertonTi-tans.com. “We were kind of sleepwalking through the first half, so it was nice to see us wake up and compete in the second 20 minutes.”

The Titans relied heavi-ly upon their starting five Wednesday.

Four starters played well over 30 minutes and

each starter played over 28 minutes.

The starting lineup of Miles, Butler, Logan, Iwuoha and Daeja Smith is 2-0.

It looks like Park has found a consistent go-to starting lineup after shuf-fling the starting rotation the first few games.

CSUF will hope to ex-tend their winning streak Saturday against South Da-kota on the road.

The Titans fell to the Coyotes last season 66-57 at Titan Gym in the season opener.

Iwuoha led CSUF in that game with 14 points and seven rebounds.

Miles and Iwuoha carry CSUF to blowout victory

Titans overmatched by big UCLA team

Seniors Chante Miles and Kathleen Iwuoha exploded in a huge second half for CSUF

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Cal State Fullerton volleyball players Niki With-ers and Holland Crenshaw received Big West Conference honors Monday.

The Titans finished second to last place in the conference, posting a 2-14 record during Big West play.

Withers was selected to the Big West All-Freshman Team.

This is the third consecutive season that a Ti-tan player was selected to the All-Freshman Team with Lauren Kissell earning the honor in 2012 and McKenna Painton in 2013.

Withers had 417 kills, which is the second most in the Big West and the 81st in the nation.

Her 3.93 kills per set were third in the confer-ence and 56th in the country.

Crenshaw received honorable mention honors.

The junior led the Titans in hitting percentage and posted career highs in kills, service aces and total attempts.

Samantha Logan made 3-of-4 3-point attempts in the second half of CSUF’s blowout victory over Denver Wednesday night.WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

Josh Gentry attempts to drive the ball past UCLA defender Isaac Hamilton during the 73-45 loss Wednesday at Pauley Pavillion.WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN

CSUF men’s basketball was overmatched against Pac-12 foe UCLA Wednesday

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