Monday, April 26, 2010

Undocumented and unafraid

Her name is Tania, and she's undocumented.

"It's a radical act just to say it," she says, sitting in her workplace, which for this column she'd rather not identify.

Tania is 26, a University of Illinois at Chicago graduate with a good job, and on an ordinary day she's gregarious and confident.

But when she speaks the thorny truth that she's carried inside since she was 10 years old — a truth that could get her fired or deported, could harm her family and alienate her friends — her handstremble and her eyes dart off.

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