Did you know that among Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), Korean Americans have the greatest rate of undocumented immigrants?  In a Huffington Post article titled “Korean Americans March for America,” Minsuk Kim writes about the struggles of undocumented Korean-American immigrants and you’ll be surprised who they are.  They’re people who are manual laborers to ivy league students.  And they have one thing in common and that it’s a struggle to survive.

Nearly a quarter million Korean Americans are undocumented as the result of this promise of a better life coming into conflict with the realities of the immigration system.

Undocumented Korean American college students have been especially vocal in the fight for immigration reform. The stories of the measures taken by these students and their families to support a college education give the push to pass reform a special sense of urgency. Their hardship extends well beyond their ineligibility for financial aid. A huge question mark looms over their post-graduation plans – without a Social Security number, how are they to find employment?

As the immigration reform movement escalates in size and intensity, undocumented Korean American students will continue to make their voices heard. On March 21, over 100,000 people from every corner of America will come together in Washington D.C. to show their support for immigration reform in a “March For America,” and Korean Americans from California to New Jersey will be among them.

For the full article, go to the Huffington Post.