Le sort de M. Padilla a Princeton

[luc cuvier]

Saluts.

Je me permets de partager le compte-rendu du NYT (Sunday NYT) et c'est aussi dans le Wall Street journal.

M. Padilla est etudiant a Princeton; son statut: illegal.

cf vie aux EU pour de plus amples details.

Cela fait reflechir - sur la vie et l'immigration ...

Luc Cuvier

[Invité]

Saluts.

Je me permets de partager le compte-rendu du NYT (Sunday NYT) et c'est aussi dans le Wall Street journal.

M. Padilla est etudiant a Princeton; son statut: illegal.

cf vie aux EU pour de plus amples details.

Cela fait reflechir - sur la vie et l'immigration ...

Luc Cuvier

Excuse-nous mais on ne sait pas du tout de quoi tu parles !

Peux-tu donner des liens pour partager ta réflection.

@+

[luc cuvier]

On verra bien ce qui lui arrive

en attendant, il ne reste pas sans rien faire -

2 remarques:

certaines institutions (universites) acceptent leurs etudiants en fonction de leur dossier et de leurs qualifications - pas de leur statut INS et des paperasses legales.

il a pas mal de soutien - des avocats et 10 000 dollars

cela peut aider.

Luc

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[samedi 16 avril]

Illegal Immigrant, Star Student

The front page of today's Wall Street Journal has a long, fascinating article about an accomplished student at Princeton, who happens also to be an illegal immigrant. Here is a short excerpt:

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a 21-year-old classics major at Princeton University, has risen from a childhood in homeless shelters and blighted apartments to maintain a 3.9 grade-point average. He has won prize after prize, often taking twice the typical course load. One faculty member, writing a recommendation, predicted "he will be one of the best classicists to emerge in his generation."

Mr. Padilla stands out at Princeton for another reason: He's an illegal immigrant. And two weeks ago, he did something few people in his shoes ever do. He turned himself in.

Mr. Padilla recently won a two-year scholarship to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. But according to longstanding immigration law, if he leaves, he can't return to the U.S. -- his home since the age of 4 -- for at least 10 years....

On his Princeton application, Mr. Padilla checked a box declaring he wasn't a U.S. citizen. Seeing him as a foreign student, a university official said he needed to return to the Dominican Republic in order to apply for a student visa required of foreign students. To find out what the consequences of going back to his home country would be, Mr. Padilla spoke with a lawyer arranged by Prep for Prep, a New York program that helps minority kids who are college-bound. He told Princeton that if he went to the Dominican Republic he wouldn't be allowed back into the U.S.

The university ultimately overlooked his immigration status and gave him a full scholarship, consisting of financial-aid grants that didn't include federally funded programs. Princeton "doesn't take documentation status into account when making admission decisions," says a spokeswoman for the university. She says Princeton has enrolled fewer than half a dozen illegal immigrants in the past four years.

"He could have been from the moon and I would have admitted him," says Fred Hargadon, dean of admissions at Princeton at the time Mr. Padilla applied.

posted by Greg Mankiw at 9:24 AM 4 comments

[luc cuvier]

Saluts.

Je me permets de partager le compte-rendu du NYT (Sunday NYT) et c'est aussi dans le Wall Street journal.

M. Padilla est etudiant a Princeton; son statut: illegal.

cf vie aux EU pour de plus amples details.

Cela fait reflechir - sur la vie et l'immigration ...

Luc Cuvier

Excuse-nous mais on ne sait pas du tout de quoi tu parles !

Peux-tu donner des liens pour partager ta réflection.

@+

voila, voila;

je redonne l'info

(cf vie aux EU - Forum Immigrer )

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Illegal Immigrant, Star Student

The front page of today's Wall Street Journal has a long, fascinating article about an accomplished student at Princeton, who happens also to be an illegal immigrant. Here is a short excerpt:

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a 21-year-old classics major at Princeton University, has risen from a childhood in homeless shelters and blighted apartments to maintain a 3.9 grade-point average. He has won prize after prize, often taking twice the typical course load. One faculty member, writing a recommendation, predicted "he will be one of the best classicists to emerge in his generation."

Mr. Padilla stands out at Princeton for another reason: He's an illegal immigrant. And two weeks ago, he did something few people in his shoes ever do. He turned himself in.

Mr. Padilla recently won a two-year scholarship to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. But according to longstanding immigration law, if he leaves, he can't return to the U.S. -- his home since the age of 4 -- for at least 10 years....

On his Princeton application, Mr. Padilla checked a box declaring he wasn't a U.S. citizen. Seeing him as a foreign student, a university official said he needed to return to the Dominican Republic in order to apply for a student visa required of foreign students. To find out what the consequences of going back to his home country would be, Mr. Padilla spoke with a lawyer arranged by Prep for Prep, a New York program that helps minority kids who are college-bound. He told Princeton that if he went to the Dominican Republic he wouldn't be allowed back into the U.S.

The university ultimately overlooked his immigration status and gave him a full scholarship, consisting of financial-aid grants that didn't include federally funded programs. Princeton "doesn't take documentation status into account when making admission decisions," says a spokeswoman for the university. She says Princeton has enrolled fewer than half a dozen illegal immigrants in the past four years.

"He could have been from the moon and I would have admitted him," says Fred Hargadon, dean of admissions at Princeton at the time Mr. Padilla applied.

posted by Greg Mankiw at 9:24 AM 4 comments

Saluts.

Je me permets de partager le compte-rendu du NYT (Sunday NYT) et c'est aussi dans le Wall Street journal.

M. Padilla est etudiant a Princeton; son statut: illegal.

cf vie aux EU pour de plus amples details.

Cela fait reflechir - sur la vie et l'immigration ...

Luc Cuvier

Excuse-nous mais on ne sait pas du tout de quoi tu parles !

Peux-tu donner des liens pour partager ta réflection.

@+

[LMF]

Voyons jusqu'où cela ira. Ça pourrait me donner des idées. :niark1: