ABSTRACT
Imagine yourself living in the United States as an asylum seeker from Haiti; an Indian green-card holder; a Polish-American citizen with legal paperwork issues and a record of a misdemeanor; a Japanese foreign student; or an undocumented migrant worker from Mexico. What happens to you if you drink and drive and are caught? Or if you engage in petty shoplifting and the shop owner calls the local police? How can these bad choices come back to haunt you? Or how about if you make better choices: For instance, not knowing a word of English, you purposefully enroll in English-language classes?
