For Julio Salgado and many others, the limbo of being an illegal immigrant the fear of deportation, the hiding in plain sight, the uncertainties of the underground economy appeared to vanish abruptly Friday. "We can exist now in the eyes of the country," said Salgado, 28, a Berkeley artist who got a degree from Cal State Long Beach two years ago but said his status as an undocumented immigrant has forced him to scrape together off-the-books jobs as an illustrator and fast-food worker.
