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I need essay summary for "I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard" from Spectrum, a collection of engaging essays

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A Dream Act: I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard is a heartbreaking essay written by a 21 year old Mexican descendant, studying Political Science at Harvard. The writer explains how she came into the US from Mexico at a very young age and adapted to the life in the US. Now, she says that she lives in fear of deportation as she recalls that she has seven more months at Harvard.

Her father came to America as a cab driver and overstayed. His license was taken away and he was jobless for few weeks. He then joined as a delivery man for a local restaurant. She feels terrorized by the new act that would force her family and others who illegally stay in the US out of the country very soon. The pain of leaving everything where she grew for nearly 15 years makes her sick. She feels that the government should provide citizenship to people who have been living there for a long time.

She says that she got a job at the restaurant where his father works as a delivery man but that’s not what a Harvard graduate should work. If they are not given the citizenship status, she will end up in the restaurant throughout her life which will be heartbreaking. The new US government is bringing lots of reforms that would crush the American dreams of millions of people around the world. She ends her essay by saying that she belongs to America and wants America to belong her.

In my opinion, people who grew up in America should be given citizenship if they don’t have any criminal record. After all they have integrated themselves with the American values, beliefs and patriotism during their stay in America.