A ‘Dreamer’ Goes to Washington

Refusing to change out of her turtleneck on a sweltering day in Pasadena and being captivated by swaying palm trees.

That’s most of what Miriam Tellez Sorrosa remembers about arriving in the United States from Mexico when she was 7.

“I had not seen palm trees in my life,” she said. “I thought they were going to fall.”