"Angelo Cabrera was offered a job administering a program for Mexican immigrants at Baruch College in Manhattan more than two years ago.

This month, he will show up for his first day of work.

He spent around 24 months stuck in his native Mexico, trying to straighten out his immigration status and qualify for a work visa, and almost 24 years as an undocumented New Yorker. During those years, he earned two degrees from Baruch, part of the City University of New York, and started a social services organization. Now he is back — legally.

"It has been a miracle," Mr. Cabrera, 41, said on Friday at the college. "It feels like I was under the shadows, under the darkness, for nearly 24 years."

Mr. Cabrera crossed the border as a teenager in 1990 and made his way to New York. While working menial jobs, he earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree from Baruch and founded Masa, a nonprofit in the South Bronx that tutors Mexican and Mexican-American students." 

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