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U.S. citizen students face an agonizing choice: Affording college or protecting parents from deportation

It hadn’t occurred to Ryan that going to college could endanger his parents’ safety, until he was halfway through filling out the financial aid form. He sat in his room at his computer, staring at the box he had to click acknowledging that his parents didn’t have social security numbers. It was in

By The Hechinger Report

U.S. citizen students face an agonizing choice: Affording college or protecting parents from deportation

It hadn’t occurred to Ryan that going to college could endanger his parents’ safety, until he was halfway through filling out the financial aid form

He sat in his room at his computer, staring at the box he had to click acknowledging that his parents didn’t have social security numbers

It was in