Illegal immigrant status dashes college plans

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-undocumented-students-20100619,0,960245.story?page=1

I ran into this article after Freedman mentioned a similar story in the readings. It's full of invisible people, Fernando, his teacher and parents. The sources (the school counselor, the principal, the professor of sociology) each gave a view of the issue from different levels, helping the reader to zoom in and out.

I would like to have been educated more on the 'dream act', when it began to stir and exactly who was involved.

Finishing (instead of beginning) with Wielgosz and her contribution could have subtracted from the immigration issue, making this soft new. But clever blending of the 'common folk' and the experts was done very well.

Thoughts?