DURBIN ANNOUNCES TEREZA LEE, HIS INSPIRATION FOR THE DREAM ACT, AS HIS GUEST FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced that he will host Tereza Lee as his guest for President Trump's State of the Union Address. Tereza was Durbin's inspiration to write the Dream Act in 2001 when he learned of her story after outreach by Ann Monaco, Tereza's teacher at the Merit School of Music in Chicago. Tereza was a musical prodigy who had played as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She had been accepted into several of the country's most prestigious music schools, but she had a problem-her parents had brought her to the United States when she was two, and she was undocumented.

"My office contacted the Immigration and Naturaliz...