UNO grad’s aim to soar as U.S. pilot dashed by immigration status, despite Rep. Bacon’s intervention

OMAHA — Ever since she can remember, Mariana Juarez wanted to fly. A commercial pilot’s license seemed a distant dream, though, when family hardships in her home in Guerrero, Mexico, drove her out of school at age 14. Two years later, she and her mom fled to the United States without authorization. They were allowed to […]