Access to Higher Education for Undocumented and "Dacamented" Students: The Current State of Affairs

Abstract

An estimated 11.5 million of the more than 40 million foreign-born individuals residing in the United States are considered “undocumented immigrants.”1 Roughly 1.8 million of the nation’s undocumented population is eighteen years old or younger,2 and an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools each year.3 In light of the expansive undocumented youth population in the United States, on June 15, 2012, the Obama Administration authored the memorandum