NEW YORK.- The migratory status of millions of foreigners in the United States is reflected directly in the universities, which unlike grade, middle and high schools, demand legal documents so their students can benefit from three government provisions that prevail in the nation.

For years the movement of student formed youngsters and descendants of immigrants, not born in the United States, has for decades waged an all out struggle to reach, as it finally did yesterday, the first foothold in that legal battle, when the House of Representatives approved the Dream Act.

The legislation will not only legalize the tens of thousands of students in higher education institutes nationwide, but will also allow them access to benefits such as full and partial scholarships, state and federal loans, wider and diverse spaces of academic training, among others.

In that context, thousands of students from the Dominican Republic also stand to benefit from that prerogatives, reaching the yearned for dream, after dealing with the obstacles of migratory red tape that kept them from attaining a professional career, closing the doors to the future, and subjecting them to what immigration specialists call an "underworld of shadows."

The movement made calls and posted more than 20,000 text messages daily in Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others to the congressmen in Washington and various institutions via cell phones to seek their support through the social networks.