Two Undocumented Immigrants Are Valedictorians in Texas

Two high school valedictorians in the southern U.S. state of Texas have revealed they are undocumented immigrants from Mexico.   Both have received college scholarships - one to Yale, the other to the University of Texas. Larissa Martinez came to the United States in 2010 with her mother and sister, she said, to escape from her alcoholic and abusive father. The three now live in a one-bedroom apartment in McKinley, Texas.   "I am one of the 11 million undocumented...

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