Undocumented students are, in most cases highly skilled in their fields of study. We are hard working and dedicated young people; we are ready to contribute to the country that raised and provided us with an education, a home and opportunities. But Each year, we are ignored and pushed aside as the U.S imports thousands of skilled workers, like us,  from third world countries to fill positions we‘ve grown up dreaming to hold someday. We, America's undocumented children, are hunted down and marked for deportation to countries many of us barely know or don't even want to remember at all.

Yes, the immigration debate is quite dicey and regardless of our position on the issue, it also tends to bring out the rawest of emotions in all of us, but there is no denying that no child is responsible or should be punishable for his parents actions, his parents decision to bring them to the U.S. Expecting undocumented students to willingly return or wanting them to be deported to places they have no emotional ties to or know nothing about is unrealistic and unfair on so many levels.

We are like illegimate children: quietly living in the shadows and desperately hoping for love and acceptance from a parent. We await the Bill that will someday finally allow us to live the lives we've always dreamt of growing up behind the white picket fences. We hope, pray for the best. We live on someday; meanwhile time is passing us by...