On TIME Magazine's 100 Most influential people while undocumented. Awesome! Dream actvists from Arizona, Dulce Matuz is influential and she, like thousands and thousands of other young, bright, immigrants deserve more than how the US is handling immigration reform. 

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via TIME Magazine

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The U.S. immigration debate brings out the worst in some and the best in others. Dulce Matuz, 27, represents the finest of her generation, putting herself through college partly via scholarships and graduating with an electrical-engineering degree. An undocumented Latina confronted with legal barriers to pursuing her engineering dream, she chose to fight for the right to contribute to the country she has called home since she was young. As president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, Dulce promotes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who, like her, were brought to the U.S. before they were 16, attend college or serve in the military and are of good moral character. Dulce takes on powerful opponents with grace and conviction, saying, "We are Americans, and Americans don't give up."