Cash-strapped undocumented immigrants in Chicago flock to free community colleges
Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY Published 2:29 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 10:32 a.m. ET Oct. 25, 2017
CHICAGO — More than two years after Chicago launched a program that offers a swath of high school students a free ride at its community colleges, city officials are touting their growing list of students moving on to four-year universities with two years of college credit and not a dollar in debt.
Yet another, more subtle, trend has emerged from the program known as the Star Scholarship: Chicago’s junior colleges have become an extraordinarily popular spot for high-achieving but cash-strapped undocumented immigrants to study.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/10/24/cash-strapped-undocumented-immigrants-chicago-flock-free-community-college/794428001/
