wishes and dreams and aspirations like any of us do," said Maria Rodriguez, head of the Florida Immigrant Coalition. "If we want their work, work, work, we must recognize their humanity too."

The train will set off from Miami on Sunday at 8:50 a.m., with buses leaving from Miami and Tampa later in the day. Many of those traveling will be students who plan to stage a mock graduation Monday on Capitol Hill to highlight hurdles they face in attending U.S. universities. Undocumented immigrants generally must pay out-of-state college fees, which are up to four times higher than in-state rates.

Colombian-born Rudi Navarra, who completed a bachelor's and master's degree in the United States, said that even as a legal immigrant he ran into difficulties. His student visa blocked himGathering of poets, critics and translators of poetry

Maja Šučur

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Maja Šučur was born in Ljubljana (1989). She spent her high-school years in Maribor, where she attended Prva gimnazija. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Slovenian language and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She is a literary critic, writing mostly for Literatura, but also for Dialogi, Pogledi and Časopis za kritiko znanosti. She is currently very happy working as a journalist for Dnevnik’s cultural pages. If she has any time left she’s occasionally proofreading, every spring she helps organizing the International feminist and queer festival Red Dawns. She’s now a coordinator and project manager at Slovenian association of Literary Critics, but her first literary review was written a few years