Young people in favor of the DREAM Act, families affected by deportations and pro-immigrant activists held a vigil here Friday in memory of an undocumented student in Texas who committed suicide last week.

Joaquin Luna, an 18-year-old honor student at Juarez-Lincoln High School in Mission, Texas, shot himself the day after Thanksgiving.

His family said Luna was suffering from depression that was only made worse by the letters of acceptance he received from several universities where he could never go because of his undocumented status and lack of money.