North Jersey schools brace for immigrant influx
SEPTEMBER 14, 2014, 11:54 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014, 11:54 PM
BY MONSY ALVARADO
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Fourteen-year-old Elizita and her father arrived at the West New York registration offices around 7:15 a.m. Thursday, hoping to enroll her in school.
But it would be a dream deferred. The family, who waited outside in the crisp air, was told to come back. They were sent to get a physical, which included a tuberculosis test, that would clear Elizita to start school.
“If it won’t be tomorrow, then I’ll start Monday,” she said in Spanish after making a doctor’s appointment.
It had been a long journey for Elizita to this point — the dream of an American education — after a grueling two-week trek earlier this summer out of Guatemala and into this county illegally with her 16-year-old cousin to join her father in North Jersey.
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