Section 1: Who are undocumented students?
Undocumented students include those students born outside of the United States, many of whom have lived in this country for a significant portion of their lives, and who reside here without the legal permission of the federal government. Some undocumented students and their families entered the country legally on tourist or work visas and chose to stay in the US after their visas expired. Others entered without any form of legal immigration status (Oliverez, 2005) According to Badger & Yale-Loehr (2006), undocumented students are foreign nationals who: 1) entered the United States without inspection or with fraudulent documents; or 2) entered legally as a nonimmigrant but then violated the terms of his or her status and remained in the United States without authorization.
