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The right way. >> reporter: so, perhaps, for another year, carla will drive highway 15 and samantha with the big round, brown eyes will visit her dad at his little house with the bullet holes. now, carla says that if it was not for little samantha, she would have gone ahead and moved with oscar to mexico to wait out the process. and ultimately, when the united states government does give them an answer, if they turn him down, carla and oscar says well, perhaps, they'll just move to canada. john? sara? >> isn't he the type of person, though, that you'd want to have immigrate to the countriy peo...

There is definitely a noticeable theme. engineering degrees make up eight of the top ten most highly paid majors. petroleum engineering is number one with an average starting salary of $86,000, right out of college. that is the person who comes up with ways to extract oil and gas from the earth. computer science is the only nonengineering major that's high up on the list. that field has an average starting salary of $61,000. computer engineers design everything from video games to machines that build cars. so a lot of work out there for them, kyra. >> okay. so those fields pay well, but are th...

We are following these numbers for you, of course, throughout the day right here in the "cnn newsroom." in the next two to three months, thousands of college graduates will be joining the labor force. but what they're going to find is one of the toughest job markets, really, in decades. and yeah, there was a new study that shows that certain majors actually pay off. stephanie elam is in the new york bureau for us with details on some of the highest paid majors. stephanie, good to see you again. what tops the list here? >> reporter: tony, there's definitely a theme if you take a look at these...