On a bright day on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley, 21-year-old Victor squints into the sun as another student comes up to him for a breezy chat.

In most ways Victor is like any other college student. He has a 3.4 GPA and he majors in ethnic studies. He wants to go to medical school. His dream is to be a pediatrician one day.

He has grand ambitions, but Victor may never actually reach his dream job, and it likely won’t be grades holding him back.

An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Victor is in some ways invisible. By law, he isn’t allowed to be in the country. He doesn’t have a Social Security number or a driver’s license — indeed, as far as the federal government is concerned, an identity.

As a small child, Victor was brought across the border after his father was murdered in Mexico. His family decided that it wasn’t safe anymore for them, they left for the United States.

See the entire article here.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Charles Birgeneau had a really nice point in the article that questions the hypocrisy of our opponents:

“I am a very strong believer that people should obey the law,” says Birgeneau. “These people were brought here by their parents. Many of them don’t even know they were here illegally. So we need to provide them with a pathway to make sure that they are obeying the law.”

Nativists want us to become legal and do things legally but would not provide a pathway to make that happen.