There are approximately 3 million illegal immigrants who are high school aged and are undocumented.

From this number only around 64000 or more make it to high school and from that number only a little more than 7 percent, that is roughly around 4800 make it to college. The founder of a nonprofit organization who supports aspiring students stated that financial constraints, lack of information and a general fear and apathy force the other 93 per cent of illegal immigrants to stay out of college.

For many students who remain undocumented being asked as to where they come from is not a very easy question to answer; it’s not because they do not know the answer, but it is because the immigration laws are such that they go on to complicate the answer and also their lives. For most illegal immigrant students the United States has always been their home, and the immigrant laws are making it difficult for them to meld in with the systems in place. In the state of Oklahoma itself, there are around 100,000 immigrants. If these immigrants had access to the opportunities that education offers all the benefits are transferred to the communities in which they live.