School is open for immigrants 

School is open, or opening, for all schoolchildren in America. But for children of undocumented immigrants, that yearly ritual is not always so simple. Perhaps one of the greatest yearnings in the human heart is the need to secure an unshakeable sense of belonging.  

Americans flaunt group membership by wearing red, white, and blue lapel pins, flying Old Glory on the front porch, cheering the USA World Cup soccer team, and singing the “Star Spangled Banner.” Still, such unrelenting patriotism masks an ironic bias that goes something like this: Undocumented immigrants go home.