We’re learning the hard way. This edition of B-Side is about a group of people struggling to learn, to make it in college. And we’re not talking about the usual too many units not enough time kind of trouble. These students are undocumented immigrants – most brought here by their parents when they were too young to have any say in the matter. And now they’re dealing with the consequences.

There are all kinds of difficulties those of us who were born here would never even think about. Tam Tran, a graduate student at Brown University in American Studies helps us navigate the issue. Tam is undocumented.

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Martin Ricard is a reporter with a print background who is pursuing a master’s degree at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism to become a multimedia reporter and an even better storyteller. Before attending graduate school, he worked as a reporter for The Daily Review in Hayward, Calif. In 2006.  He was a fellow at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute. He is spending the summer of ’09 reporting for The Washington Post.