Corporations ease off giving scholarships to illegal immigrants
Tagged: San Jose, student“Earlier this year, Hector Vega learned from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation that he was one of 250 winners of a merit scholarship that had drawn applications from 50,000 high-school seniors across the country.
“I was so excited,” recalled the straight-A student from San Jose, Calif., who had been scrambling to raise funds for college.
But his joy was tempered Feb. 14, when he received an e-mail message from the foundation. It said “they couldn’t give me any money because of my immigration status,” said Vega, an illegal immigrant who is the covaledictorian of the senior class at James Lick High School.”
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May 31st, 2006
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