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Dan-el Padilla Peralta also Dan-el Padilla is an associate professor of classics at Princeton who researches and teaches the Roman Republic and early Empire, as well as classical reception in contemporary American and Latin American cultures. Padilla and his family entered the United States legally in , when Padilla was four years old. In Padilla, then living with his family in a shelter in Bushwick, Brooklyn , met photographer Jeff Cowen , who took an interest in the young boy.

Padilla applied for early admission to Princeton and was accepted in December Princeton awarded him a full scholarship out of its own funds because his immigration status made him ineligible for federal aid programs.

The distrust of immigrants I explored in my previous article is rooted in more than just (unfounded) fear of violence.

He majored in classics, studying ancient Rome and Greece. He often took twice the normal course load. In early Padilla won Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Class of Graduating Scholarship, a two-year scholarship for a second bachelor's degree at Worcester College of the University of Oxford. Due to his having been in the United States unlawfully, if discovered, he would have been unable to apply for ten years.

Further, without a work visa he would be unable to find work in the United States as a scholar and professor, his intended occupation. In April Padilla was issued a one-year H-1B Visa allowing him to work as a research assistant at Princeton while attending Oxford. Padilla successfully defended his Stanford Ph. As a Fellow he was a lecturer in classics at Columbia.

Can the Field Survive? Along with his academic and political supporters Padilla campaigned unsuccessfully in for passage of the DREAM Act , which would have allowed high school graduates who had been undocumented immigrants since childhood, to become legal residents if they agreed to attend college or served in the United States Armed Forces.