"The issue that he is an openly undocumented citizen did not come up really at all in the election," said John Claybrook, 21, who ran against Mr. Zelaya and was named student body president-elect this week.
Luis Serrano, an undocumented citizen of the United States since he was 10 years old, has always been afraid for his family.
The bill offers a pathway to citizenship for the estimated eleven million undocumented citizens living in the United States, dramatically enhances the enforcement and security of the border, and creates a new system for employers across a number of industries to legally hire temporary foreign workers.
Another provides identity cards to undocumented citizens.
According to the Chronicle, more than 25,000 undocumented citizens graduate from high school in California each year.
"After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes," Mr. Paul wrote.
In 2012, Romney, who had once seemed to support the Bush legislation, moved far to the right on immigration, calling on undocumented citizens to "self-deport" and attacking Governor Perry for signing legislation, in 2001, that allowed unauthorized immigrants in Texas to qualify for in-state tuition rates.
He promised to "create a new special deportation task force" to remove undocumented citizens, insisted that "anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation," and, for new immigrants, vowed to create "new screening tests for all applicants that include an ideological certification".
Rhode Island's Board of Governors recently approved in-state tuition for undocumented citizens, effective next fall.
The reasons for this is that places with large Hispanic populations tend to have "the newest documented citizens, and the highest percentage of undocumented citizens," said Witters.
In others, like with some African nations, their national bureaucracies can't efficiently verify the identity of their undocumented citizens abroad and issue travel documents.
