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NBC invited Lori Montenegro from its Spanish language sibling network Telemundo to contribute to We the People, its occasional series on multicultural America. Montenegro's report focused on the so-called Dream Act, legislation that has been proposed and defeated four times in the past eight years to grant immigration amnesty to some 360,000 teenagers. The Dream Act would allow high school graduates without residency papers to stay in this country if they either attend college or enlist in the military and "most importantly it could provide a path to legal residency." Montenegro illustrated her story with the example of Noe Guzman, a 17-year-old who believed he was a citizen until he graduated from high school. It was only when he tried to enlist that he discovered his Social Security number was bogus and that his mother had smuggled him into the United States when he was a toddler. "I was raised here. I do not know anything of Mexico," confessed the potential deportee.
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