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Today, it is estimated that about 65,000 undocumented students graduate from US high schools each year to encounter significant barriers to higher education and continued development. As a result, only a small fraction of these youth attend college. American in identity and spirit if not on paper, unauthorized students share the aspirations and ambitions of their American-born peers, but due to their legal status their social mobility is severely restricted after high school graduation. This publication calls for a humane and comprehensive resolution to the legal barriers that hinder undocumented students from going to college and participating fully in society. It promotes the [Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors] DREAM Act as a bipartisan policy solution that would open the door to college for tens of thousands of students.