Lynwood Unified students on March 17 had the opportunity to explore legal and higher education services during the Marco Antonio Firebaugh Memorials’ annual Dreamers Conference, which empowered immigrant students with valuable support, resources and the belief that college is attainable.
Workshops, speakers and activities educated students from Lynwood and Firebaugh high schools on the California Dream Act, Assembly Bill 540, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), immigration legislation, driver’s licenses for undocumented individuals, financial, legal, health resources and more.
Passed in 2001, AB540 was authored by the late Marco Antonio Firebaugh, for whom the Firebaugh High School was named, and allows undocumented California high school graduates to pay in-state college tuition rates.
"A lot of our community is undocumented or are Dreamers," Firebaugh High School sophomore Luna Camila Gonzalez said. “It’s good to know our community has unity in this and that we can recognize we're all American.”