cesar vargas is the executive director of the dream bar associate.e joins us to tell us his story. why can't you practice law? >> simply new york committee decided i had the character, an evaluation that every law student and graduate has. unfortunate for them, because of my immigration status they couldn't make a decision. for them it was completely new, this issue. they punt it to the highest court to really deal with the issue. for them my immigration status was something they couldn't sign off, despite the fact that they found my character, as they said, was stellar. the novelty of the issue is complicating stuff >> it is complicating. you came in at five, brought in illegally, but you are undocumented but you are legal; correct. >> i came to the u.s. when i was five. my mother brought us here after my father passed away when i was four. a hard decision. she tried to do it the legal way. our immigration system is broken. for her the only objective was to provide myself and family a better life. i came to graduate from the new york city school pub