On Wednesday night, a crowd of over 1,000 people packed into Manual High School in Denver, Colorado to call on Senator Michael Bennett to support immigration reform this year.

One 17 year old undocumented high school student gave a moving testimony about the urgent need for reform:

“Viridiana” says she came to Colorado when she was 6. She said when she first saw the bright lights on I-25, she was so excited. There are no bright lights in Mexico, she says. And those lights came to symbolize her own bright future. But not any longer.

“I feel so hopeless,” she says softly. She has taken college-credit courses since she was 15. But she says that hard work won’t translate into a higher education. She cannot afford to pay out-of-state college tuition, which she says is up to five times more than in-state tuition. She realizes her education is over–despite her dreams of becoming an immigration lawyer.

“My fear is not just getting caught, getting sent back (to Mexico). It’s living in this cage forever. you know, living this fake life,” she says.

The Town Hall was just one of four separate events taking place in Colorado this week – we wrote earlier on the prayer action in Aurora.

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