"Officially a Doctor in Law. This J.D degree is for the DREAM movement. Victory will
be ours!" César Vargas wrote on his Facebook wall this past weekend after receiving
his law degree.

Graduation ceremonies are held all throughout the country and amongst these
students, who with immense efforts are graduating from college, are hundreds of
thousands like César, undocumented students with an enormous potential to offer to
this country. With impressive titles under the arm, but still without the
identification documents that would allow them to maximize the full potential of
their education and to give the best thing of themselves to this country, which they
know as their only home.

César has become one of the national voices of the movement in favor of the DREAM
Act that would legalize him and thousands of others that at the moment are asking to
be protected from deportation while the fate of this legalization bill is defined
for young people that complete college or serve in the armed forces. The measure
was introduced in Congress, once again, last week.

César, brought by his parents from Mexico at five-years of age, grew up in Brooklyn,
New York, and graduated from the same high school that the Chair of the Senate
Subcommittee on Immigration, Charles Schumer, democratic senator of New York. His
case combines both aspects contemplated by the DREAM Act because he aspires to be a
military lawyer.

The young man will devote 10 hours a day for the next 2 months to prepare for the
law bar examination in order to be able to practice within his profession.
"Even when I pass the bar exam it won't mean anything because they can't give me a
license to practice as a lawyer because I don't ...