American Sueño: Here & Not

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As President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration works its way through the courts, Newest Americans has been exploring what is at stake for Marisol Conde-Hernandez and her family.

See previous chapters of Marisol’s story below.

Episode 1: Meet Marisol

Marisol Conde Hernandez is an undocumented law student at Rutgers University-Newark and the co-founder of the NJ DREAM Act Coalition.

Episode 2: Leaving Home

Marisol leaves home for the first time to take a summer fellowship at Harvard.

To see how different states make life easier or harder for undocumented immigrants, check out this New York Times infographic.

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Ron Haviv, Rachel Dennis, Gareth Smit

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We are a multimedia collaboratory of journalists, media-makers, artists, faculty and students telling the stories that radiate from the most diverse university in the nation. Based in Newark, NJ, a city shaped by migration, our project affords a glimpse into the world of the newest Americans and a vision of our demographic future.

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