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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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"Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated ... two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of his class. From Collegiate, Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived, and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement."

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OL Work ID
OL18823270W

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Dominican americansIllegal aliensImmigrants, united statesBiographyDominicans (Dominican Republic)ImmigrantsNoncitizensIllegal immigrationSOCIAL SCIENCEEmigration & ImmigrationUndocumented immigrantsEinwanderungUmschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer

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