<p>Clearly we need immigration reform, but to assume that because this young man is of Mexican heritage that he took the place of someone more deserving is plain wrong. We do not have his application, his statistics, his scores, his essays, his recommendations to assume anything. He came to the United States when he was 4 and inferring that he should go back to Mexico “where he belongs” seems just plain dumb. I know my own son has been enriched by being friends with this young man at Harvard. Harvard is great because it takes a world view and accepts students from diverse backrounds.</p>
<p>Update: <a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/19/harvard_student_wont_face_deportation/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/19/harvard_student_wont_face_deportation/</a></p>
<p>It seems his deportation has been “deferred.”</p>
<p>There are 10 million undocumented immigrants in US. Most of them came here when they were kids. It is wrong to not follow the laws and settle in this country without a legal authorization. </p>
<p>The undocumented student group include people from all over the world. Most of them have already became part of this society. They can still work - just not those big companies. </p>
<p>I know that we need enforcement. But the reality is that there are 10 millions of them (a conservative estimation). But at the same time, we have to propose a meaningful solution to bring these undocumented people into the system, meaning that we have to legalize them in some ways, so that we can documented them and tax them. (Many of them have been paying taxes anyway; here in US you can pay tax to the government even as an alien).</p>
<p>These students have not given up their dreams. Some people didn’t even know that they were undocumented until they begin to do their college applications.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the link. Good news.</p>
<p>And Harvard really deserves to be the #1 world-ranked university. An instutition that places education and learning above laws and restrictions. Even undocumented students like Eric may receive full tuition I heard? (I remembered a similar student received full scholarship to attend Harvard). Of course graduate school and medical school are different…</p>
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<p>Harvard meets all demonstrated need, which usually means an income at or under $60,000 - it’s not a matter of documentation.</p>
<p>The most interesting and obvious question here is whether this person was admitted as an international or domestic applicant.</p>
<p>I believe I read that he was admitted as an international student-I think I read it in the Boston Globe.</p>
<p>lol @ jwxie</p>
<p>We know Harvard is number one because it is above the law, and gives full rides to illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>^The hallmark of any good school is not submitting to laws in need of desperate repair. ;)</p>