Immigrant of the Day: Daniel Guadron (Guatemala)

Our Immigrant of the Day, Daniel Guardron, was detained for nearly seven months as an immigrant in high school and returned to graduate with his class.  As the AP story reports, “[h]e was born on the Fourth of July, an irony he would only appreciate later, during the dark period of his life, when liberty and freedom became far more than mere words in his high school history book.”

A straight-A student, Daniel Guadron mastered English within months of emigrating from Guatemala at 13, then mastered French. “He’s aced every math test he has ever taken.”  He was a star athlete too. Despite the financial obstacles, he will attend a community college next year and hopes to transfer to the New Jersey Institute of Technology and study to be an engineer.

KJ