The Immigrant: Dreaming of U.S. Citizenship

By COREY KILGANNON for the NY Times, Published: April 16, 2006

In Jackson Heights, Queens, last week, a line of people stretched outside Orlando Travel, a small booth between a lingerie shop and a perfume store in a mini-mall. One of them, Miguel A. Carvajal, clung to a folder of papers and to the hope that what he was doing — filing his taxes — would help him change his status as an illegal immigrant...