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Visuals: Gareth Smit, Ron Haviv, Rachel Dennis

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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.

Newest Americans is produced by the Center for Migration and the Global City, and faculty in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers University Newark in partnership with VII Photo and Talking Eyes Media. We have a large body of contributors and co-conspirators who are credited in the masthead and at the end of each story.

To contact us, please email info@newestamericans.com.

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