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Ga. college student a reluctant immigration symbol - Yahoo! News
Just some points in the story that I thought merited a direct answer.
Jessica Colotl has always tried to keep a low profile obeying the speed limit, making sure her car's lights work properly knowing that a brush with law enforcement could lead to her deportation and cost her a college diploma.
After a few close calls, her fears were realized last spring, when she was stopped for a minor traffic violation, charged with driving without a license and turned over to immigration authorities. She spent 37 days in a detention center in Alabama before authorities let her out and said they would give her a year to finish her studies at Kennesaw State University.
Excuse me? WHY, precisely, are we concerned about her finishing her studies? Are there any other criminals for whom we put off prosecution and punishment to allow them to go to school?
"I think it's grossly unfair to the real immigrants who have followed the rules to come here legally," said D.A. King, founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which advocates stricter enforcement of immigration laws.
Through it all, the soft-spoken Colotl has been left wondering, "Why me?"
Um, because you're a criminal, you dumb bitch. You're in college, and you can't figure out something THAT simple?
Colotl's case sparked public concerns that Georgia state colleges and universities were being overrun by illegal immigrants, that taxpayers were subsidizing their education and legal residents were being displaced. Yet a study conducted by the university system's Board of Regents found that less than 1 percent of the state's public college students were illegal immigrants, and that students who pay out-of-state tuition which illegal immigrants are required to do more than pay for their education.
Now how about the fact that THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE?! Could we perhaps address THAT?
King, an ardent supporter of that bill, said he used Colotl's case last year to file a complaint against the Board of Regents. Young people like Colotl who were brought here by their parents present a sympathetic case, he said, but he blames their parents for their situation.
"I think Jessica Colotl should have been deported last year as an example to the parents who are shamelessly bringing their children into this country," he said.
No, I blame her parents for bringing her here as a child, but this whining twat is an adult now, who has deliberately and with malice aforethought chosen to remain in the country, knowing that she shouldn't be here. Hell, the story tells you in the first paragraph how hard she's worked at hiding her crime from law enforcement. Nothing sympathetic about premeditated criminal behavior, in my book.
Despite all her troubles over the past year, Colotl doesn't regret her parents' decision to bring her here.
"I would never dare to blame them for trying to give me a better life," she said.
Well, isn't that sweet, that she's learned such high moral standards that she doesn't blame her parents for breaking the law and harming other people in the service of their goals for her. I guess she'd get equally soppy if they'd robbed a couple of banks to help support her over the years, too.
Wow, sure want THIS shining example of law-abiding integrity to hang around. What a fantastic addition to the country.
Just some points in the story that I thought merited a direct answer.
Jessica Colotl has always tried to keep a low profile obeying the speed limit, making sure her car's lights work properly knowing that a brush with law enforcement could lead to her deportation and cost her a college diploma.
After a few close calls, her fears were realized last spring, when she was stopped for a minor traffic violation, charged with driving without a license and turned over to immigration authorities. She spent 37 days in a detention center in Alabama before authorities let her out and said they would give her a year to finish her studies at Kennesaw State University.
Excuse me? WHY, precisely, are we concerned about her finishing her studies? Are there any other criminals for whom we put off prosecution and punishment to allow them to go to school?
"I think it's grossly unfair to the real immigrants who have followed the rules to come here legally," said D.A. King, founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which advocates stricter enforcement of immigration laws.
Through it all, the soft-spoken Colotl has been left wondering, "Why me?"
Um, because you're a criminal, you dumb bitch. You're in college, and you can't figure out something THAT simple?
Colotl's case sparked public concerns that Georgia state colleges and universities were being overrun by illegal immigrants, that taxpayers were subsidizing their education and legal residents were being displaced. Yet a study conducted by the university system's Board of Regents found that less than 1 percent of the state's public college students were illegal immigrants, and that students who pay out-of-state tuition which illegal immigrants are required to do more than pay for their education.
Now how about the fact that THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE?! Could we perhaps address THAT?
King, an ardent supporter of that bill, said he used Colotl's case last year to file a complaint against the Board of Regents. Young people like Colotl who were brought here by their parents present a sympathetic case, he said, but he blames their parents for their situation.
"I think Jessica Colotl should have been deported last year as an example to the parents who are shamelessly bringing their children into this country," he said.
No, I blame her parents for bringing her here as a child, but this whining twat is an adult now, who has deliberately and with malice aforethought chosen to remain in the country, knowing that she shouldn't be here. Hell, the story tells you in the first paragraph how hard she's worked at hiding her crime from law enforcement. Nothing sympathetic about premeditated criminal behavior, in my book.
Despite all her troubles over the past year, Colotl doesn't regret her parents' decision to bring her here.
"I would never dare to blame them for trying to give me a better life," she said.
Well, isn't that sweet, that she's learned such high moral standards that she doesn't blame her parents for breaking the law and harming other people in the service of their goals for her. I guess she'd get equally soppy if they'd robbed a couple of banks to help support her over the years, too.
Wow, sure want THIS shining example of law-abiding integrity to hang around. What a fantastic addition to the country.
