Amy Goodman
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Freedom University: Undocumented Students in Georgia Forced To Attend Underground College
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March 6, 2012
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10:52Now Playingdemocracynow.org - As Georgia votes in its Super Tuesday primary, the state senate has voted to ban undocumented immigrant students from all public universities. Undocumented students from Georgia are already barred from the state's five most competitive schools and must pay out-of-state tuition at other state schools. "Telling us that we cannot obtain higher education, that we cannot go to college or community college, even if we work hard and do our best in school, it is crushing dreams and it is crushing goals," says Keish Kim, an undocumented student from South Korea who now attends Freedom University -- an ad-hoc, underground school in Athens, Georgia, where university professors volunteer to teach undocumented students kept out of public classrooms. We also speak with Azadeh Shahshahani, Director of the National Security/Immigrants' Rights Project at the ACLU of Georgia.
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