I think you should learn the meaning of paranoia

Definition

Paranoia is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others,
sometimes reaching delusional proportions

So tell me how does that apply here?

Say hatred, or racist, or something like that..Paranoid, no

BTW, I hope she gets her azz kicked out

Only in a backwards, racist, Red State, which takes endlessly from the Federal Treasury and gives back a fraction, could this kerfuffle occur.

Red States represent the American Taliban.

This is EXACTLY the type of person we should be KEEPING in the US!

Dan,

There will be any number of people on this vine, spouting off about how immigrants are ruining our country and need to be deported.

THAT is paranoia. Thank you for so clearly illustrating it.

There is absolutely no benefit to having illegal aliens flood this country. No benefit for the country, for you, for your children. If anybody says it's to do the jobs Americans won't do, I'll have to assume you're retarded and never took an economics class. If there weren't illegal aliens doing the jobs at discount rates the wages would increase and Americans would work those jobs again.... so don't even go there.

By the way, you won't find a single conservative (not speaking of politicians) who is afraid of dealing with the imigration problem the correct way and kicking illegal aliens out of the country. The only people who seem paranoid are liberals who are affraid of the TRUTH AND THE CONSEQUENCES.

It's clearly no accident your avatar looks like a klan hood.

Bart Conner...

I ABSOLUTELY agree with you that these she is the type of person we need to keep in the country... but until we can figure out how to keep people like her from coming in in on the same bus as MS13 gangsters.... NOBODY should be allowed to stay.

benfjackson.... I feel sorry for your people... You're going to be blamed for EVERYTHING for the next 20 years.

lol civil, you sound like you are jealous of her...

I DO??? If anything I sound QUITE DISCONTENTED....

Actually you sound like you're jealous of her... She hates her own country and wishes it was like other countries.... JUST LIKE YOU DO!!! Except she has balls and actually went to her desired country. Don't you wish you can just leave this evil country with all of it's evil people and go to Venezuela with Hugo??

Whenever illegal immigration is discussed, liberals immediately toss out words like PARANOIA-RACIST or Humanity. Defending illegal immigration puts you on the wrong side of history, the facts are the facts illegal immigrants cost US TAX Payers Billions each year. Liberals could use that money to fund more far reaching entitlement programs for American citizens.

Leamon Lane... You are correct. The liberals will go down in the history books as traitors to their country because of this issue. They don't get it. They've never read a history book.

If anyone tries to be here in the USA the legal way...the government should take this as good intentions after reviews of that person...most times they never meet or know the person..just that its on data she's not allowed here, then it all becomes RED TAPE.

Glad this young lady is here and wants to be a good American..and hope her dream of helping others becomes true ( a heart doctor).

I think it is a sad state that all these lucky born American citizens are so up in arms over this. I am sure if the situation was flipped and you were brought here illegally as a child, you would see the error of your ways and self deport. Most of us are American citizens not because we did something right, but because we happened to be born here. A lot of skill that took...

Who needs paranoia when we have truth smashing us all in the face every single day? To say that Hispanics haven't taken much of their money and sent it back to Mexico, is just plain stupid. To say that Hispanics haven't taken jobs away from Americans, is ignorant. Legal or not, there's a reason the flow of people must be controlled.

Sarah-3043284

Dan,

There will be any number of people on this vine, spouting off about how immigrants are ruining our country and need to be deported.

THAT is paranoia. Thank you for so clearly illustrating it.

I post the definition of paranoia, and you STILL dont know the meaning....

ITS NOT paranoia that has people saying they are ruining our country, maybe just misinformed...Illegals arent the whole reason for this country going down the toilet, there are many...THE GOP and the teabaggers are a BIG reason....BIG CORP is another...BUT Ill tell you one thing ILLEGALS have a big hand in it, taking BILLIONS of dollars away from REAL citizens getting FREE educations, FREE medical, FOOD STAMPS and such....

Also dont give me the BS about how they dont get those things, as I live in the real world and SEE IT everyday I go to Safeway....

Food stamps while not given to ILLEGALS directly, ARE given to them for their ANCHOR BABIES, along with FREE MEDICAL through Medical and other ways..

So what I suggest to you Sarah, is you take your rose colored glasses off, and look at the world through clear eyes.....

Lastly dont give the "you are a Rightie" BS, I am and always have been a registered Dem..I just happen to see things for what they are....

This is a sad day for true, red blooded Americans.

Dan... I have to applaud you. Putting our political and social differences aside... it's refreshing to see a democrat drop their party line of supporting and promoting illegal immigration and the trashing of our laws and our very Constitution.

Thank you for admitting to the truth that is staring us all in the face. If more democrats were willing to stand up for the truth and come together with their fellow Americans on issues such as this, we would have a much better country waiting for our children and grandchildren.

ah shucks Civil.......:)

I for one believe we need to be helping those countries less fortunate than us, one of the best advices ever put forth was, give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach him to fish feed him for a life time.

That being said we as a nation have taught a great many residents of other countries a lot of wonderful skills and a tremendous amount of education that should be put to use in those countries to help them become beacons of hope and change. It is very selfish of us as a nation to hoard these extremely talented and superbly educated individuals to our selves, they are valuable assets nay they are national treasures that these countries and their peoples should demand be returned to their rightful home.

In the long run it is a far better investment than sending billions of our tax dollars to these less fortunate countries that their leaders will only spend on vacations, booze and porn anyway (the give a fish part) and instead return these national treasures so they can take all of those great skills and education and use it day after day to improve their home countries (the teach them to fish part).

How could either side left or right not see that this is the best possible choice at helping these less fortunate countries and their people become self sufficient productive nations.

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Robbob.... SIR, your quest for more foreign aid from American taxpayers who can barely afford their own lives has absolutely nothing to do with the issue if illegal aliens ruining our country's economy.

Find another story to comment on.

So she's an illegal, but because she is going to college, she should stay and not be held accountable....

hum, so if I rob a bank, and decide to use that money to go to college, can I stay out of prison? yeah right.

Breaking the law, is breaking the law. She should have been deported along with all the other illegals that can't, don't and won't go to college.

@it's me, nope, you still go to prison, but you can still earn your degree while locked up! And guess who pays for it....taxpayers! You are welcome.

CivilWarriorAmericana sir please reread my comment with a touch of sarcasm.

The girl in the story is the foreign aid I want sent to her country instead of the billions we send now.

as the names of the two groups we started should point out.

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Sorry... the sarcasm went over my head. Anything to do with Americans paying more taxes to benefit the rest of the world just sets me off without thinking. It's being done to us so often that we can't even take a joke about it anymore. :)

No doubt, we have millions unemployed and millions illegally employed, can't see why this is so hard for our politicians to do the simple math of remove those illegally employed from the jobs and replace them with those who have a legal right to those jobs and greatly reduce the number of unemployed.

Economy is down, greatly reduce the amount of our GDP being sent to other countries each month by those working here illegally, some countries are getting as much as 5 billion a month sent to them by illegals here. Now that money is keep here and spent here instead of being taken out of our pockets and sent elsewhere.

@Robbob, lots of southern states tried just that with their immigration laws, but when the migrant workers headed for other states, nobody showed up to take their open positions. Americans are above the jobs they work. The scary thing is, the most powerful countries rely on illegal aliens to do the dirty manual labor their citizens are above.

Um, Never Stop Asking Questions, Florida voted for Obama in 2008. So not sure where your red state hatred is coming from. Actually I am sure. It is from hate and ignorance for anyone that does not agree with you.

FYI, Senator Marco Rubio ( GOP) has proposed a common sense immigration plan that would allow folks like this valedictorian to have a path to citizenship. We do need to keep people like her in the country and many other hard working immigrants. It is not amnesty, but would give her a program to eventually become a citizen.

Americans are above the jobs they work.

Bull, here in Washington illegals are working in just about every field you can think of, and the term field I don't mean farm fields either. Construction, medical, education, fabrication, plants and processing.

In the area I live most of the teens off for the summer worked different jobs from produce picking and packaging, sales at stands and farmers markets, lawn care and any other number of seasonal jobs. Now all those jobs are going to illegals, one farmer's complaint was illegals who would only work for cash because they didn't want to loose their L&I comp.

All of my kids started working at 13 folding boxes like a lot of their friends, it was a piece job, more you did the more you got paid, then worked their way up to running a stand when they got older, now all of those jobs have gone to illegals, and it's not just farm jobs either. Illegals have taken over a lot of the skilled labor jobs as well, and they use someone elses SSN and can even get a DL here in Washington for ID.

I don't disagree with what you say. I just don't think the argument "get rid of illegals and unemployment will go away" is solid. My company has a really hard time finding people to work on our assembly line. The work is not terribly hard, gross work, physical, etc. It is repetitive and not all that exciting, but nobody wants the work. We pay well above Idaho minimum labor. For the record, we do not have any illegal aliens working for us, but my point is, the workforce people claim is out there, just isn't. Unskilled labor positions are open and available.

"BTW, I hope she gets her azz kicked out"

Wow.

She was brought here when she was 4 years old, and you want to punish her

I'd rather have her stay here than you.

At least she's human.

Maybe just noboby wants to live in Idaho?

@Sam, you don't know how happy that makes most Idahoans! If there was a story about a Californian buying property in Idaho, we would be way more upset than a story of an illegal alien. :)

We like to keep this place to ourselves.

Bob Perry, owner of Bob Perry Homes in Houston, big GOP donor, the guy who financed the sleazy "Swift Boat" propoganda campaign against John Kerry HIRES ILLEGAL ALIENS.

He donated 100,000 to the Hispanic Caucus of Texas to fight the Texas GOP's proposed "sanctuary cities" bill that would have given local law enforcement the right to enforce immigration law, in the course of their normal duties.

Why, oh why would a good, conservative, "PATRIOT" do such a thing?

GUESS! His entire workforce is illegal and he knows it. Of course, he gets around that by exclusively using contract labor, but he's obviously very aware who his employees are and is determined to keep them no matter WHAT it does to the country.

Sorry for the rant. I just like to post this once in a while, so people don't forget that FINE, PATRIOTIC, CONSERVATIVE, America hater.

@Idahowhoever

I'll stay in Texas. You can have all the Idaho you want.

The only reason Texas doesn't fall in the Gulf of Mexico is because Oklahoma sucks so bad, but I'd rather live in OKLAHOMA than Idaho.

Civil - Can you explain to everyone what would happen to the prices of items produced/serviced by illegal immigrants. Such as most of our produce. Yes, not having any illegals would cause those jobs to have to hire taxpaying Americans at higher salaries. However, you do realize in such a low profit margin business, the prices of the products would have to go up as well. People complain about the prices of food as so as it is, they will be crying for illegals to do it if they see the price of a tomato then. FYI - I am for securing the border and keeping new illegals out and giving current people in the country a path to citizenship, but don't fool yourself thinking the lowly jobs they do would be better served by using American workers.

@Sam: Ouch! I grew up in Houston and Longview. Went to Idaho for college and never left. While I would agree that living in some parts of Idaho would not be ideal(southern). I am in N Idaho and it is awesome. We have the most public land in the lower 48 and some of the best hunting and fishing in the US. I would take Idaho over OK any day, but I am a fan of the OKC Thunder.

Your point on Bob Perry is a good one. It does not matter what party you are a member of....when you own a business...you are a business man first and your duty is to make money for your business. Many companies(swinging left or right) rely on illegal labor to stay competitive. Once they get used to making the money this way, it is nearly impossible to go back.

This situation is EASY to resolve.

Make sure her grades are only good in Latin American countries and invalid in the free world especially the United States.

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You forget that NO ONE wants to work for the slave wages and zero benefits, including no medical, dental, retirement or vacations, that illegals are willing to work for. Our crops prices haven't gone down, have they, since they took over the fields...nor have housing costs (aside from the market busting) gone down since they took over construction jobs from the Americans who, up until 10 years ago, use to do them. Can your teenager find the entry level job at a fast food restaurant where you live, mine can't. Again, illegals have take over them too.

These aren't job Americans wont do, these are jobs Americans wont do for practically free, even in this economy....

BTW, she should have been and still needs to be deported. Even if she goes to college, she's not eligible to work, as an illegal, so all she's doing is taking the place and resources of someone who belongs here...

Civil you do realize that these people go back to their home countries and apply what they have learned here to make them a better place right? If by doing so Chinese students from America manage to topple their Government from within and create a democracy is that not a worthwhile reason to accept Chinese foreign students?

Is not the betterment of the World a reason for accepting them? Do you only care about America's well being, the rest of the World can go to hell? Who cares if we do not benefit from this right away, eventually we will and that is all the reason we need to continue accepting foreign students.

You have to think long game in this world, if you do not you end up shooting yourself in the head because you cannot see outside of some arbitrary box of years. If you think on a scale of decades and plan on that scale there is almost nothing that cannot be accomplished.

Oil for example. All we ever hear is we need to drill more. Why? Oil does not grow out of the ground, it is a finite resource. Drilling more just wastes it faster. Drilling more causes oil to run out sooner rather then later and we have no alternative power source as of yet that can replace it except for nuclear.

So why should we rush into an energy crisis? To make the country a little right today? What about tomorrow when oil runs out and all of that money we made was made for nothing because our society collapses or the economy enters a real depression because we do not have the resources to replace it?

You think long term on things like energy policy and you chances of getting royally screwed are smaller then when you think short term. This short term and you are bending over and asking the universe to butt-rape you.

@Angela: What fast food company or any other unskilled labor position used to offer medical, dental, retirement and vacations as well as higher pay 10 years ago? I have never come across one. I am in a college degree required professional field now and I had my medical and dental and retirement stopped 2 years ago to help keep the company open. If there are unskilled positions offering said benefits, I am the first one out the door to work there. Yes they are jobs American workers will not do. Minimum wage was set up by American govt for American workers, but our work force will not take the jobs.

GEOWIL... If they actually went back to their countries we wouldn't even be discussing this issue. The only ones going back are exchange students.... PERIOD!!! ...And more than half of them don't even go back.

....SO SPARE ME!!!

JasonFinPhilly24

ABSOLUTELY... I would be happy to tell you what would happen..... Prices would increase along with WAGES. That coupled with the fact that we wouldn't be TAXED TO DEATH in order to pay for everybody who doesn't even belong here... AND the fact that the unemployment rate of ACTUAL AMERICANS would undoubtedly drop.... I'm pretty sure things will work themselves out.

As far as competition... if farm number 1 wasn't utilizing illegal labor to undercut farm number 2... then farm number 2 wouldn't have to utilize illegal labor to COMPETE with farm number 1.... and the AMERICANS it would then be forced to emply for normal wages would be able to afford the products.... even at increased prices... BECAUSE THEY WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A JOB.

BOTTOM LINE... APPLY BASIC ECONOMICS.... AND YOU LIBERALS LOSE THE ARGUMENT ALL DAY LONG!!!

Exactly correct Civil. Basic economics works every time. Which is why, when South Carolina and Mississippi passed their immigration laws and droves of illegals left the state, the farmers had tons of Americans show up to take the open position. Wait, that didn't happen. Some workers showed up...for a day or two...then never came back.

Angela:

She is legal now. Her parents overstayed a visa. Since the law recognizes this was not her fault, it allows her to stay until she turns 18 plus 180 days in order to finish high school, which she did. During that time her father, who became a citizen when his US Military serviceman brother sponsored him, then filed the paperwork to allow her to come back on a student visa. The visa was approved slightly ahead of schedule given her exemplary academic record and her willingness to leave the US, go to Mexico, and wait for the paperwork to be completed so she could return as an adult, law-abiding citizen.

Given the current state of things in Mexico, she's to be commended for her bravery in going and her willingness to obey the laws; with all the drug cartel violence going on down there, she could have been caught in a crossfire and killed while she was waiting there to find out if her visa would be approved!

IdahoSteve....

YOU PROVED MY POINT!!! If illegal immigration wasn't tollerated WHAT YOU SAID WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.

I know you don't like to admit it but your snotty little post is the EXACT reason it shouldn't be tollerated ANYWHERE in the country. Sanctuary states should be cut off from federal funding BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU JUST POSTED.

ANOTHER PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE RUINING OUR ECONOMY!!!

THANK YOU, IdahoSteve!

@Amanda. I think you are mixing up stories. Daniela was never sent to Mexico to wait to come back. Elizabeth Olivas from central Indiana was. Similar story, but different people. Daniela in this story had her school, legislature, etc rally to keep her here through graduation and helped her get a 2 year extension while her case is worked on.

CivilWarrior American aid:

GEOWIL... If they actually went back to their countries we wouldn't even be discussing this issue. The only ones going back are exchange students.... PERIOD!!! ...And more than half of them don't even go back.

....SO SPARE ME!!!

Excuse me. I'm going to politely point out that you have that incorrect.

Immigrants from all over the world want to come here and study. Say someone from China comes here to study medicine. He goes back to his country where a degree earned in America is rated quite highly. They start their own practice or even their own school. Now while he was here, he learned how to perform diagnostics on American machines. China's machines aren't built the same way, so he comes to America and says 'I want to buy the machines I learned to practice medicine on.' The machines he buys keep American workers in jobs and the money we give China comes back in them purchasing our machines.

Olympic athletes from all over the world come here to train because we have the best technology and atmosphere to foster peaceful competition. And yes, they do go home after they are done. When the Summer Olympics starts, listen to the commentators talking about those little gymnasts. They'll say someone trained in the US under such and such a coach but they are competing for whatever county they are from. Also, some gymnasts come from Russia and China to train, decide they like it here, and stay--and bring the US the gold medals.

Seriously, try thinking about your posts and whether they are factual or not before you say something that makes you appear uninformed.

IdahoSteve--ok, yeah, I do. I got them mixed up. Eek!!! SORRYYYY!!!!!

Amanda... I have no intention of being polite about it.... AND.... YOU PROVED MY POINT TOO!!!

NOW... that you got your little hissy fit out of your system... TALK TO ME ABOUT ALL OF THE ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO AREN'T OLYMPIC ATHELETES OR EXCHANGE STUDENTS (institutional intelligence thieves)!!!

.... you can't.

CivilWarriorAmericana said:

TALK TO ME ABOUT ALL OF THE ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO AREN'T OLYMPIC ATHELETES OR EXCHANGE STUDENTS (institutional intelligence thieves)!!!

I was one of those the government declared 'illegal'.

I was adopted as an infant and never told before dad and Mom passed away in a car accident . 18 years after the adoption psaper was filed, USCIS does a routine record search and finds they've lost my adoption paper, and comes to me saying papers please. Having never even known I was adopted, my response was 'what papers?' They decided that made me illegal and placed me in deportation.

There was, however, nowhere to deport me to since I was stateless/undocumnted prior to my adoption--an infant abandoned with no birth certificate or other paperwork so they informed me that I would remain in deportation until I gave them a copy of my adoption paper. Since Dad was in the military when i was young (got out when i was 10) we'd moved aroubnd a bit and so I spent those three years writing to every courthouse in three states trying to find that pepr. I did finally find it and they released me.

This girl has been declared illegal and it's a government mistake:

Blanca Catt, who at 19 still lives at home, wants to join the military or go to college like many in her Columbia Christian School graduating class. Instead she lives in fear she'll be deported. Catt, born in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S. as a toddler, was seized from abusive parents by the state of Oregon and placed into foster care with the Catts when she was 5 years old. The Catts adopted her three years later and said caseworkers told them their daughter automatically became a U.S. citizen.
When Blanca tried to apply for a driver's permit at 16, she learned for the first time that crucial paperwork had never been filed to make her a legal resident. She's been in limbo ever since, unable to apply for jobs or loans, or even fly to Disneyland with her graduating class. Now Catt is caught in a bind. Since she has turned 19, she faces tough penalties for being in the country illegally. If she is deported, she would have to wait 10 years to apply for re-entry. Lisa Catt, Blanca's mother, is frustrated that state workers never completed the paperwork and then failed to tell Blanca's adoptive family of the omission.

Here's a couple of guys who served in the Army:

Rennison Castillo, a Washington state man who was born in Belize but took his oath of citizenship while serving in the U.S. Army in 1998, spent seven months in an ICE prison in 2006. Castillo, 33, of Lakewood, came to the United States at age 6 and later became a permanent lawful resident. He was sworn in as a citizen during his seven-year stint in the Army, which ended with his honorable discharge in 2003.

Mr. George Ibarra, 46, was born in Mexico but was raised since infancy in Arizona. In his late 20s he enlisted in the Marines and served three years on active duty, including time in Iraq, before being honorably discharged. On February 23, 2011 Department of Justice adjudicator Richard Phelps ruled in Eloy, Arizona that George Ibarra had by a preponderance of the evidence proven that he is indeed a citizen of the United States. Rather than apologize to Mr. Ibarra for previously wrongfully detaining him, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is holding Mr. Ibarra in solitary confinement at the Eloy Detention Center, in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and a memorandum requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release anyone with "probative evidence" of U.S. citizenship.

Here's a blind 'illegal' who was deported:

Lack of proper training of immigration inspectors resulted in their mistaken conclusion that Sharon McKnight’s passport was fraudulent. McKnight spent eight days in Jamaica before returning to New York. While there, her luggage, containing all her money, was stolen. Airport workers contributed money so she could reach family members. Once there, her mother flew to Jamaica from New York to take her case to the US consulate in Kingston. With the help of Rep. Michael Forbes (D-NY), consulate officials determined that the passport and birth certificate, which immigration officials had declared fraudulent, were in fact real, and established McKnight’s US citizenship.

Here's an 'illegal' whose father was born in Indiana:

When Angela Boneva, a 34 year old went to renew her passport in 2003, the State Department told her she was no longer a citizen. Boneva's father was born in Indiana, and the US consulate in Bulgaria gave her U.S. citizenship while she was growing up in Bulgaria in 1981.The State Department said that an employee at the consulate broke a rule that required her father to have lived in the U.S. for 10 years before she was born, the Tribune reported. Her father had only lived in the U.S. for six years before moving to Bulgaria.

Here's an 'illegal' with diplomatic immunity who also served in our military:

Hans Joachim Keil was arrested in Dutton in September and accused of being an illegal alien. He was an official representative of Samoa, a current Member of Parliament and a prominent businessman with many family links. He had diverted to Missouri on the way home from trade talks in Brussels where he represented Samoa. “They were going to lock me up for five years plus five years. Five years for impersonating a US citizen and five years for using an illegal US passport. On the day of my arrest when I brought to their attention, that I served in the US military … they threw that out the window and said that I’m an illegal alien and I have no right to be in the United States. They knew I was a Samoan diplomat but they had no regard for my diplomatic passport.”

Here's a Brooklyn-born 'illegal' identified as such because a Texas deputy didn't recognize a New York accent:

Houston chef Leonard Robert Parrish, 52, ran afoul of a law intended for illegal immigrants. The Brooklyn-born Parrish went down to the Harris County Sheriff's Office in September to clear up a problem over a couple of bounced checks. He wound up in jail on immigration charges. He was strip-searched and spent 12 hours in custody. "The deputy told me I had a foreign accent," Parrish recalled. "I told him I had an East Coast accent. He said, 'It sounds like a foreign accent to me.'" A 2008 Texas law required a person's citizenship status be linked to his driver's license. A sheriff's deputy told Parrish he was detained because when they ran his driver's license information through their computer, it said that his citizenship status was 'unknown.' "I served on a murder jury in Texas and they can't find out I'm a citizen?" asked Parrish.

Being 'illegal' has little to do with whether you're here legally or not. Homeland Security can pretty much point to anyone and say 'you're illegal'. Fomer ICE exec James Pendergraph said himself in 2008 to a police conference that "if you can't charge them criminally but you think they may be here illegally, we can make them disappear."

Making people diappear, last I heard, was against American principles and more like the Nazis.

NEW CNN POLL REGARDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE ARIZONA LAW--- 75% of Americans support the LAW--- The CNN demographic breakdown reflected that-- even 62% of non-whites and 56% of Democrats SUPPORT the Arizona law (as I have been saying all along--- Democrats like me ALSO want our laws enforced!!!!:

As for immigration, the new survey indicates three-quarters of Americans support the contentious Arizona law that allows police to arrest or detain suspected illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws.

Asked if they support the measure, 75% of respondents say they are in favor of it, while 24% say they are against it, the poll shows.

Arguing that the state was overreaching, the federal government challenged the law in a suit, which made its way to the Supreme Court this spring. During oral arguments in April, however, justices appeared to be leaning in favor of the law.

Congrats! Please allow me to say thank you for not just stealing our tax dollars but actually using them and the education system the way we wish more students would.

Now go home and then come back legally like every other honest person who want to enter this country everyday wanting to make something of themselves and contribute to the United States.

For all of you that are crying foul over this. Please remember she broke the law and most importantly that people like her are the minority not the majority. I mean simple law of averages means that this was bound to happen at some point. She is the exception and not the rule when it comes to illegal immigrants in this country.

sam-298381

"BTW, I hope she gets her azz kicked out"

Wow.

She was brought here when she was 4 years old, and you want to punish her

I'd rather have her stay here than you.

YEAH WELL TOUGH SHYTE, IM AN AMERICAN, UNLIKE HER FAT AZZ

All illegals need to be picked up and deported. All of them.

How sweet...she has taken advantage of the American taxpayer to get a free education and now wants to take the place of an American citizen in college and professional school

Illegal immigrants - our motto is:

"Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws!"

dolt, Obama cant have ILLEGALS' vote...THEY CANT VOTE...Dont get me wrong, I hate the illegals MORE than you. I GUARANTEE that...But if you want to Hate Obama fine......what a sheeple

oh and FYI, Obama deports more than Bush ever did

This is EXACTLY the type of person we should be KEEPING in the US! She's among the best and the brightest.

What's the use of deporting her but keeping the corner thug?

I read this article twice and I did not see where it said this young woman was getting a free education at taxpayer expense. She could have EARNED a scholarship to Dartmouth due to her 6.7 GPA, but if so, that has nothing to do with taxpayer money. This obviously smart, motivated and diligent young woman plans on becoming a heart surgeon, potentially saving your life or the life of someone you love in the future. You must be super duper smart too with a sky high GPA from high school and you must be world renowned in whatever highly skilled career you must have. Since, you know, you feel you have the right to bash this girl who was brought into this country through no fault of her own, but plans to stay here and make it better with her intelligence, and work ethic.

But that is exactly why the GOP would rather have her deported. Smart people tend to vote Democratic and we can't have that, can we?

Texas, if she attended public high school, which I presume North Miami Senior High School is, it is funded by taxpayers and not private payments.

When she attends Dartmouth, will she need to get a visa to attend? If not, she should as she is not a citizen.

So I am not sure I understand the reasoning.

Is this how it is supposed to work: you come here illegally first, THEN spend taxpayer money on public education, medicare, etc., THEN prove you can graduate from high school/college, and only THEN do we decide if we want to admit you? Seems like under this system we should throw the doors open and let the whole world in, just to see if they can graduate from our free high schools and then stay? Otherwise, seems like we are discriminating against everyone else here illegally and we wouldn't want to appear to favor one race over all others would we???

texaslady98

I read this article twice and I did not see where it said this young woman was getting a free education at taxpayer expense.

DO YOU THINK HIGH SCHOOL IS FREE?

OR MEDICAL?

Bart Conner

This is EXACTLY the type of person we should be KEEPING in the US! She's among the best and the brightest.

What's the use of deporting her but keeping the corner thug?

WHO says we want to "keep the corner thug"?

kick All THEIR AZZES OUT

You may want to reconsider your opposition, because if she is allowed to stay here and follow her career goals she may save your life someday.

NO Texas, she wont....there are PLENTY of doctors at the VA that are LEGAL that can

According to the article her father is a American citizen who served our country.

Does he own a home or rent..maybe..and if you own a home or rent you pay RE taxes and RE taxes pay for the school district ( part of rent is RE taxes paid by the landlord)..so his kid went to a public school..why not her father paid his share asked for taxes.

I don't know about "going to school for free". The problem with that is that generally, schools are paid for through property taxes, and not income taxes. If they are living in a house with a mortgage, or in an apartment where they pay rent each and every month, that money is eventually going towards paying for property taxes which make their ways to the schools. My problem with that is that they are only putting into half the system. They put in property taxes, while the rest of us also pay income taxes.

As for Obama and him deporting Illegals, I suggest you stop being so horridly ignorant, and check your facts on that one. Obama is on track to deport more illegals in his first term, than Bush did in both terms. He may have failed in getting Immigration reform, but that's mainly because Republicans refuse to come to the table to discuss it, because that's just how they are.

I am all for these types of people being in our country, IF THEY DO IT LEGALLY. Come here on a student visa, go to school, work to be a contributing member of society and LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH. We are trying to keep leaches out of our country, not the responsible people. This girl sounds like she's more responsible and educated than half the mid-west population.

mike277

According to the article her father is a American citizen who served our country.

Reread it

Peláez left Colombia with her parents in 1998. Her family overstayed a tourist visa in the U.S. when she was 4 years old. Her father eventually became a permanent resident through her brother, who serves in the U.S. Army and achieved U.S. citizenship.

THE FATHER became a citizen ONLY after his son served in the military and sponsered the father

that took YEARS, so the FATHER was here for maybe 2 decades illegally

Made error in my comment..its her uncle who served in the military not father.

Was correcting it as you were typing Dan..as you see!

We are giving our country away.

texaslady - if she does get a scholarship to college, she is taking money away from someone who is a citizen. How is that fair?

no mike it was her brother, or the son "through her brother"

I have been through the immigration process because my husband is from overseas. What I fail to understand here, is why she doesn't have a derivative green card? As I understand immigration law, if her father was approved for a green card (through being an immediate relative of a US citizen) before she turned 18, then she should have received a green card through him.

You're wrong, KyEngineer. Only if she has citizenship can she then request a GC for her parents.

Bzzzt! Wrong, Timfrom Timmobile, please re-read. She isn't looking for a GC for her parents, she's looking for a GC for herself. Her father already has a GC.

Let's kill her.

sorry. Just got caught up in the conservative spirit of the moment.

wryview said:

texaslady - if she does get a scholarship to college, she is taking money away from someone who is a citizen. How is that fair?

Okay, but it's not just 'illegals' who do that. Did you miss the story the other day where rapper Sean 'Puffy' Combs' son Justin got $54,000 for college when his Dad is worth $500 million? How's that fair? Granted, he's a citizen, but he's taking it away from someone who might need it.

Hipoma said:

So I am not sure I understand the reasoning.

Is this how it is supposed to work: you come here illegally first, THEN spend taxpayer money on public education, medicare, etc., THEN prove you can graduate from high school/college, and only THEN do we decide if we want to admit you? Seems like under this system we should throw the doors open and let the whole world in, just to see if they can graduate from our free high schools and then stay? Otherwise, seems like we are discriminating against everyone else here illegally and we wouldn't want to appear to favor one race over all others would we???

Her parents came here legally on a visa and overstayed. She was given no choice in the matter. Since the law recognizes this was another fault, it allowed her to stay until she turns 18 plus 180 days in order to finish high school, which she did. During that time her father, who became a citizen when his US Military serviceman brother sponsored him, then filed the paperwork to allow her to come back on a student visa, which was apparently accomplished slightly ahead of schedule so she could give the commencement speech as her high school valedictorian and go on to Dartmouth. The reasoning is that she has shown a desire to be a successful contributing member of US society and so it is decided t give her that chance since we are supposed to be the Land of Opportunity.

Why is there any argument?

She's illegal and will continue to be so. She is not eligible to work, so why bother 'educating' her. She is taking the place of someone who WILL be able contribute...

And and Dan, illegals aren't SUPPOSE to vote, but they do. Nothing stops them. I've watched them provisional ballot vote in every election I worked as a pollster... don't even get me started on absentee ballots, or voting over the internet.

Angela said:

She's illegal and will continue to be so. She is not eligible to work, so why bother 'educating' her. She is taking the place of someone who WILL be able contribute...

She IS legal now! Did you read the post above at 2.25?

Her parents overstayed a visa. Since the law recognizes this was not her fault, it allows her to stay until she turns 18 plus 180 days in order to finish high school, which she did. During that time her father, who became a citizen when his US Military serviceman brother sponsored him, then filed the paperwork to allow her to come back on a student visa. The visa was approved slightly ahead of schedule given her exemplary academic record and her willingness to leave the US, go to Mexico, and wait for the paperwork to be completed so she could return as an adult, law-abiding citizen.

Given the current state of things in Mexico, she's to be commended for her bravery in going and her willingness to obey the laws; with all the drug cartel violence going on down there, she could have been caught in a crossfire and killed while she was waiting there to find out if her visa would be approved!

Very soon now, we will dump the inept lying quasi socialist in the white house, Shortly there after, he will go in front of a Grand jury for Malfeasance in Office, regarding his failure to enforce immigration laws .

Not long after that all of the city councils, churches and street corner office that have been aiding and abetting the criminal aliens are going to find themselves charged under the Rico Statutes.

We will enforce the laws requiring business to check immigration status of every employee.

You bare about to pay the price scumbag leftys

EDIT: Above posts incorrect, got Elizabeth Olivas case mixed with Daniela Pelaez. SORRY!!!

Angela LD

And and Dan, illegals aren't SUPPOSE to vote, but they do. Nothing stops them. I've watched them provisional ballot vote in every election I worked as a pollster... don't even get me started on absentee ballots, or voting over the internet.

I didnt know "pollsters" were election officials now...OH OK THEN..rolling of the eyes

YOU want to know why that is BS?.. Because the GOP would be screaming their heads off if that was true...

THATS WHY THE FLORIDA PURGE DIDNT WORK, the election OFFICIALS, THE REAL ONES found the claims to be outright false.....

all but LITERALLY a handful, AND THEY ADMITED IT...

Archie Murter

Very soon now, we will dump the inept lying quasi socialist in the white house, Shortly there after, he will go in front of a Grand jury for Malfeasance in Office, regarding his failure to enforce immigration laws .

THE ONLY exPOTUS that should be in court is GW Bush for war crimes

Maybe if you had somewhat of an education yourself, you would realize the kid's GPA is so high because she not only aced everything she took, she did it in the most difficult highly weighted Advanced Placement courses. Yeah, ship her home, we do not need anyone above the intellect of a WalMart greeter here.

TUPF - I took AP classes in high school as well but it was mathematically impossible to hit a 6.7, as the AP classes turn the 4.0 scale into a 5.0 (5.0 awarded for an A in an AP/college course). Maybe you shouldn't jump to bash someone? I graduated high school with a 4.1, and several friends who had a 4.2 and higher. The 4.0 GPA scale is the only thing most of us are familiar with, and honestly, if her school is using it, I'd love to know how she got a 6.7 as well.

A 6.7 GPA/rating is possible in an International Baccalaureate program at the high school level, which may or may not also include AP offerings. Any way you look at it, this is one bright young woman.

And BTW, I was valedictorian of my HS class of 600 and a Phi Beta Kappa college graduate. One graduates FROM high school.

"The Advanced Placement (AP) program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college. Participating colleges grant credit to students who obtained high enough scores on the exams to qualify. According to the Good Schools Guide International, it is "usually much more rigorous than the general course offerings." (From Wikipedia)

Colleges look for students who complete not only these AP courses with a sufficiently high score, they also look for students who complete the International Baccalaureate course work, where the GPA can be as high as 7.0. But one would have to be exceptionally bright to get a 7.0; the course work is very difficult.

Again, not denying this is an intelligent young woman, but the fact 6.7 is a number and means little by itself. Without giving some sort of reference as to how this number is achieved, it means little, as people like me, who did take advanced courses and finished higher than a 4.0 are still scratching our heads as to how a 6.7 is earned, as it looks... out of place and fake.

Reference I'm talking to is just a brief 1-2 sentence on exactly the 6.7 means. I went to a private school for years before finishing in public, and they actually used a 5.0 scale, as many of their classes were deemed "advanced for the average level for a student in the public education system" or something like that.

FYI there are two students in Gilbert AZ that have a reported GPA of 9.7...so its completely possible. Look past her status, and accept that she is an outstanding student with a bright future...and someone who can positively impact our society...

The International Baccalaureate curriculum uses a 7 point grading scale and many universities will award one college credit for every IB score of 5 or higher attained in high school. The IB curriculum was not available in my high school years ago, but I consider it much more rigorous than the plain AP curriculum I took.

I graduated High School with a 2.55GPA. I now make well over a six figure salary as a software engineer, and never graduated from college. My cousin, on the other hand, got straight A's through high school, went to Johns Hopkins for College, Graduated with well over a 4.0GPA (do not know exact numbers... She was just a huge scholar). She now lives in a Baltimore Ghetto, lives off welfare, has 4 kids with 3 different fathers, mooches off her parents constantly, and doesn't make more than minimum wage at any job she has ever had.

GPA means NOTHING! Dreams mean nothing. Reality means everything. One can aspire to be an astronaut, and end up working in an underground coal mine.

TUPF - You are an arrogant dolt. Did you really need to point out grammatical errors in Wes' post? Do you feel better about yourself now? No mature adult still spouts off about being a high school valedictorian when it's not even relevant to the conversation. The conversation was about the 6.7 GPA and the scale used to get it. No one cares about your need to massage your sensitive ego and sense of self-worth.

You also make the assumption that a high GPA correlates to high intellect. While in some cases it may, it's certainly no guarantee. I've met many people who did very well in high school and college who can't perform a simple task in the workplace.

I applaud the girl for her drive and determination more than some ambiguous numbering system.

doesnt matter if she had 10.0 gpa, she is still an illegal. Also if you give one illegal a chance might as well give them all a chnace, the judge have made a error big time, now they have a flood of illegal graduating school.

if she was so smart (which she isnt) she should have thought of this long time ago, go thru the process of getting a green card.

Send her to the military and put that brain to work, see how she likes it. that would be one option i would have gaven her if i was trhe judge, deportation or military? which do you want.

I'm happy for her and her achievements, but I also question the GPA scale. As a transplanted northerner who now resides in Florida, I'm perplexed by the number of students down here with GPAs at 4.0 or above. There was a recent article of a public high school that had 25 valedictorians. I think there's a bit of grade inflation in Florida that we don't see as much in other parts of the country.

LeftLeaningLisa

The highest you can get in college is 4.0

She is a criminal alien, if she has a 19 GPA , she is a criminal alien and we are about to get tired of telling you lefty scumbags, that.

Yes, but let's keep stupid people....like you. And you wonder why we're losing to the world...

bart, she isnt that smart obviously, what get you off that she is smart, only book smart biiiig deal!!!

deport her or goto the military! thats what i say.

I think we should kill her.

With the brilliant English skills you seem to have, I am sure she is aiming to take your job I am sure. Eye roll....

I'm with Steve. Excellent grammar there. You must have had a 4.0 GPA, right?

I graduated high school with a 2.55GPA, and never went to college. I make more money than any person in my family, who ALL went to college. I'm happier in my career than anyone else in my family.

GPA means nothing.

Your GPA is based on the work you did and the grades you earned. How exactly did she 'steal' someone else's GPA?

phat chicks need love too

Yes Mister Whoops they do...so boink her then put her on the bus

For every one robust "Daniela", we also get 3,000 dangerous criminal "Jose's" come here to steal jobs, commit crimes and take and take and take.

Kick all these criminal greedy losers out of the U.S.

How very kind of you NMEast, for considering allowing her to stay. I presume you are an immigration judge?

Yes it is important to make children pay for their parents crimes. If a parent takes their child with them and then breaks the law then of course the child should be punished as a criminal too. Makes sense. All those children of welfare cheaters send those 5 year olds to prison. Afterall they got benefits that someone else could have gotten. While in prison for life they should work to payback what their parents stole. If we find out about the parents crimes when the child is a teenager. Well, then, extra prison because they should have known and told on themselves and their family. No problem. No child would have trouble doing that. Right?

Because, remember that as a 4 year old at the time,she could have just refused to go with mommy and daddy, right. And sure, she's not American, right.

Also yes lets remember that if your kid does twice as good as someone else's well your kid just cheated some other kid out of their grade, right? Also the unemployment rate among heart surgeons is so high that your kids desire to be a heart surgeon is threatened by her desire to be the same.

So yes deport her . That will teach all those 4 year old potential illegals a lesson. Just think of all those good American kids . They never waste taxpayer money. They never waste the free public education given to them, right. They are grateful, top notch students. They are just cheated out of their A,s by all those illegal children.

Geeeez you guys. Sorry, my sarcasm is showing really bad today.

Josephine-1266256

She isnt 5 anymore is she?

She got her FREE EDUCATION, NOW GET OUT or Enlist, SOMETHING, just dont keep sucking on the free teet....

Tell us, what has she done BUT go to school here that she should get a pass?

Has she invented anything that helps mankind or this country?

Did she save somebodys life that was drowning or in a fire, or fell through some ice?

NO, she got a FREE education AND no doubt FREE medical all her life.....

Congrats on her diploma, now GET OUT, OR REALLY SERVE THIS COUNTRY, go to Afganistan, PROVE she is worthy

I'm pretty sure that the dream act included an option for military service.

The GOP said.....get ready....are you ready?....here it comes.....NO.

Of course, if she joins the military, not only does she get to stay, she gets a FREE college education.

`Dear Dan: Have you and your children done all those things by the time you were 18. I commend you if you have. If not, well I guess you either get a free pass because your an American or maybe we should consider you a freeoader. i really commend all of the top notch achievers here who managed to do a lifetimes work by the time they were 18. How nice of you to call children freeloaders.

Like I said. Make children resposible for parents actions. Send 18 year olds to a country that they have no memory of, no place in. She is American as much as any child here since 4.

I say send some of our own freeloading, unemployable, spit on their education children to take her place. Maybe they will start to appreciate what they have rather than sit around and point fingers and say "That person stole my grades. Stole my job. Stole my life. I'm entitled because I was born here".

NMEast said:

If an illegal alien student has family that is NOT a permanent resident (here illegally), then those family members MUST be deported immediately,

Not being a permanent resident does not equal 'here illegally'. Many people are here legally who are NOT permanent residents--diplomats, tourists, students studying from abroad, exchange students.

During the Justice Dept haring on the AZ immigration 'paper please' laws, a representative from Homeland Security said there is no way to conclusively prove someone is a citizen except through the passport system. in other words, the only way to prove you're a citizen is if you have a passport.

The State Department says that only 117 million us citizens have passports. That's 38 % of the US population of 312 million. I don't have a passport, and getting one, even though I am a naturalized citizen, could potentially open a can of worms that I can't risk. My husband doesn't have one, but he's American--Cherokee, in fact. Our kids are a quarter Cherokee. My husband's mother is full Cherokee and she doesn't have one either.

Let's use your scenario: say your kid were to be asked to prove they are a citizen. If he doesn't have a passport he could be suspected of being illegal. So then that means your entire family is now suspected of being illegal because you are not a permanent resident. If you don't have a passport, dude, you're screwed.

So rethink that plan of yours carefully and try again.

sam-298381

I'm pretty sure that the dream act included an option for military service.

The GOP said.....get ready....are you ready?....here it comes.....NO.

I SEE YOUR READING SKILLS ARE SOMEWHAT LACKING

HERE IT IS, GET READY

Her father eventually became a permanent resident through her brother, who serves in the U.S. Army and achieved U.S. citizenship.

Haha...love it Nancy. Nice.

One is a legal citizen born in this country... the other is an illegal immigrant who should be back in their own country... nuff said.

Down here in Texas, we call those people, "Reagan Democrats".

What is so broken about the immigration system? It may take time to get approved, but isn't that what we, as citizens should want? If someone is willing to spend the time and effort necessary to become a citizen, they are more than likely going to be productive, contributing citizens. Those who take the short-cut obviously don't care for the rules in place. If they don't care about that rule, what other rules will they not follow?

The only thing broken about the immigration system is that it's not enforced.

derek--who is paying for dartmouth? if it's a scholarship, that means someone who actually IS deserving AND IS A US CITIZEN is getting screwed.

i understand how hard it is...but she shouldn't even be here to begin with. what's so hard to understand about that?

and she is the furthest possible thing from an "asset" to this country---her and her family and the millions of others like her are fugitives from justice and thieves.

and i completely agree with Lee--the rules are fine. the enforcement sucks.

@sebrad, she wouldn't be taking a scholarship from anyone. Dartmouth will recruit and give scholarships to their choice of students, including international students. If they wish to give an international student a scholarship, that is their choice, not the taxpayers.

IdahoSteve - but she is a criminal.

steve: whatever...that's just semantics. i know the ivy leagues do "scholarships" differently, but it's ultimately the same point. she stole from our country to get the HS education and diploma IN THE FIRST PLACE, and now a college decides to give her a $400,000 "prize" to the detriment of someone else.

people that spend their entire lives stealing from the taxpayers of this country typically don't get rewarded for it. i hope she freezes her ass off in NH, gets hooked on shrooms and finally gets deported after getting knocked up by some toothless NH woodsie...

I am sure with all her press and the reputation she has built for herself as a bright young star, she will have no issue getting a student visa to continue studying in the US at college. She is getting special attention because she has proven worth it. I know others are trying to gain citizenship as well, but like the old saying goes, cream rises to the top. She made something of herself and the world picked up on it. Life isn't fair and you have to fight to be noticed.

steve--you are clearly confused. go back to fantasyland.

she shouldn't have had the opportunity in the first place to "rise to the top". her and her family are barely different than muggers with guns and masks...unlawfully attempting to take what they have NO right to.

if YOU want to try to save the world, do it on YOUR OWN dime and resources. i have no interest in it at all, and the vast majority of the taxpayers of this country likely agree.

Your argument is over the top and absurd, but I will bite. I agree she should not of had the opportunity to rise to the top in the first place. The problem is, she had no choice in the matter. She was held captive in this country by her parents. She did not say at the age of 4, "How about we move to the US to get free education?" She was brought here without knowing how to spell education(she might have been able to with the sound of her GPA). The mugger with a gun she is no different from has a choice to pull that gun and mug you. There is the difference....the choice.

Lee said:

The only thing broken about the immigration system is that it's not enforced.

I'm going to beg t differ with you on this one. See the below from an associated press interview with Rachel Wilson, an immigration attorney in Tucson AZ (I can't get the link to stick):

"Out there, there is this perception that there is a process you can easily go through to become legal, but let's say you're Mexican as an example, since most of the immigrants in Tucson are from Mexico. You decide you want to move to the U.S. for economic opportunity, but if you don't have any family members here ... that will sponsor a visa for you, there is no way for them to come legally to the U.S. If a person wants a work visa in the U.S., and eventually to become a citizen, it's easier if they have a relative in the country who has legal status and can file a petition on their behalf. In those instances there are lines of people waiting -- a wait that can go from a period of a few years to sometimes almost a decade."

Mexico happens to be the most backlogged of all the countries. For example, next month the State Department will look at petitions of brothers and sisters of adult citizens that were filed in January 1994. "Let's say you're Mexican and you have a brother or sister in the United States who petitions for you. Here we are in 2010, and they are processing petitions that were filed in 1994. So that's a wait of 16 years," Wilson says.

If you needed a social security card to work and it took 16 years to get you'd be working undocumented too, because you have to have money to live while you're waiting for ICE to get to your paperwork. That's the difference bewteen undocumenteds and illegals. Illegals are the ones who are undocumented AND have actually committed a crime; undocumenteds are here legally but ICE just hasn't gotten around to their paperwork yet, or they have lost or misplaced it in the 16 year wait time. To then penalize these people by incarceration and deportation when they are here legally would be unconstitutional--it's not fair to penalize someone for someone else's, or in this case, a government agency's, mistake.

If you paid an entire year's income to come here and USCIS just sat and sat and sat on your application, then sent ICE to get you as soon as time expired, seized all your belongings, your house, your car, and even the children you had while you were here and deported you, leaving you right back where you started,where is the incentive to 'do things the right way?' I seems sometimes like the only thing they want is money--the fees to come in, the money they get from putting your confiscated belongings up for sale at 'government auction' and the money they get from Congress to detain you for however long it takes to deport you--between a few weeks to five years.

And your other point--the laws aren't being enforced?

The Mexican illegal who hopped the border to deal drugs and shot a cop gets his possessions confiscated as 'civil asset forfeiture' and deported. He is not given a chance to file paperwork to become legal.

So is the 60+ year old German woman who was adopted in infancy from Germany after WWII in the 40's but her parents were never told by immigration at the time that citizenship wasn't automatic with adoption. Her house and car are seized as civil asset forfeiture and she is deported to Germany leaving her son, who was living with her, homeless. She is not allowed to file paperwork to become legal even though the initial paperwork mistake was not hers.

So is the 17 year old Rwandan who was trafficked in as a 12 year old child by a USC who made child porn with her until she got too old to be appealing and turned her out at 17, pregnant. The baby is born in the deportation camp, is taken away from the mother and given into the are of the biological father over he mother's protests that he will certainly molest the baby girl--the word of an 'illegal' is not taken over the word of a USC.

So is the 18 year old Asian who was legally adopted by US Army vet who never told her she was adopted before he passed away. When ICE loses the adoption paper they ask her for it, she has no idea what they are talking about, and is detained as an illegal but cannot be deported because she was 'stateless' prior to her adoption and there is no home country to send her back to. She is told she will remain in deportation until she can produce the adoption paper.

Trust me, the laws are being enforced.

When are we going to start sending all those Cubans back to Cuba?

And as soon as you take a non-weighted class (like Phys. Ed.), you have a GPA less than 5.0.

22.1 applies to you too.

Criminals are the types of people we need in this country? That is what she is.

texas: if you dislike it that much, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you on your way out. as much as we don't need thieving illegals, we need misguided jugheads like yourself even less...

you sound like you're not a citizen either. do you have a social security #?

But that is the LAW. Period. End of story.

And it looks like the LAW will probably change because of her story and the publicity it got. Your argument won't hold any water when/if the dream act passes. She will be a US citizen and you will have to find another reason to be upset.

steve: the only way that happens if that buffoon barry gets another shot, and i'm not even going to bother speculating about that.

i don't know about you, but in NJ i pay a ton of taxes which ultimately wind up getting stolen by people that either a) literally steal it, or b) get paid to perform a service and then half ass it or just plain screw it up.

maybe you have no $ and you don't contribute anything positive to the system either, and that's why you don't care because the next handout is only a week away. but for the rest of us that suffer through having to make a living, THIS IS BEYOND INFURIATING!!!

sebrad: I make plenty and pay my fair share of taxes. I would also kill to have her as one of my employees over the typical labor force I am subject to on a daily basis.

steve: great, that's YOUR decision to hire whomever you want, for whatever reason you want. but why is it OK for her, her family, and the millions of others like them to STEAL AND IGNORE THE LAWS of this country???

please, enlighten me. please.............

I take issue with plenty of illegal aliens. Just not this one. To me it looks like she has been trying to do the right thing but the red tape is too thick to get through. It isn't like she is in hiding and stealing our taxpayer dollars. She has been on the front page of all major news outlets trying to bring light to this issue. Her brother served in the military and her dad is now a citizen. I would not call this family "just like the rest of them". I agree with you that we need to do a major overhaul on the system to fix it and remove those that are leaching, but with the overhaul, we should embrace the ones that would do the right thing if our system was not so broken.

ok, so you're the "sympathetic" type apparently that believes that each case should stand or fall based on its own merits, regardless of what the law read while the crime was being perpetrated. while i can appreciate that angle minimally, i still find it impossible to excuse the complete, total and blatant disregard for the laws of this country in this particular situation. it's not supposed to be easy to become a citizen of this country if you weren't born here, and that's by design. and things that are easy to achieve are typically not worth having anyway. if she wanted it easy, she should have gone to mexico...they love new people over there.

and the system (not just immigration...) is broken not just because of ICE/INS/DHS inability to fulfill their job requirements properly. it's broken due to the sheer volume of illegals in this country. that issue needs to be dealt with via the current rules in place that if your visa is expired and you're not a citizen...U GOTTA GO, NOW. maybe once we get to a point where we have our borders under control, we can start looking at some of these things "individually", but until then, the rules should be enforced as the rules are written. or maybe if she starts pointing out other illegals that we can deport, because she definitely knows some, some leniency can come into play. until then, her and her family (and the rest of them...) are thieving scumbags that choose not to follow the rules and should be escorted out post-haste.

Once again, your argument is contradictory to the rest of the laws. Every single criminal offense in the US stands and falls based on its own merits. Every single case is different from the speeding ticket that one person gets for breaking the speed law to the warning the next guy gets. From the guy that gets life in prison for murder to the guy that gets 25. The laws are on the books, but it is at the courts discretion on how to hand down the sentence. How is this different? Her case is being handled differently than the illegal alien that is caught selling drugs on the street just like every other criminal offense in the US.

steve--the law plainly states (loosely translated) that if you don't belong here, then get the f**k out. it's completely irrelevant who-brought-who here--her and her family and the rest of them have been breaking the law and stealing FOR YEARS. and no, every single criminal offense doesn't rise and fall based on its own merits. there are mandatory minimums, 3 strike laws, etc., that DO NOT take into account any extenuating circumstances. thats why certain people are spending 20 yrs in the big house, no parole, for getting pinched with a tiny amount of pot, for example. (and no, i don't think murderers should spend less time in jail than a guy caught smoking a joint, but that's another topic). additionally, part of the reason that we have this cancer of illegal aliens ravaging our country is that this SHOULD NOT be an issue for the courts or anyone else to "debate". do you have a valid visa? NO. do you have a ss#? NO. CASE CLOSED--BUH-BYE. that shoud be the extent of that hearing.

we will obviously agree to disagree on this topic, but in my humble opinion, the ONLY thing this girl, her family, and the rest of them should get is deported, right now, without any additional fanfare.

Yes, we do have different opinions...

One last point. She is not doing anything illegal due to one big point people are ignoring in the article: "Peláez was later granted a two-year reprieve in March." She is free to stay for 2 years while they work her case. In her case, she is not illegal since the courts granted her a stay.

You're so full of it you've convinced yourself you like the taste of sh**

And that worked out oh-so-well, didn't it? {dripping sarcasm}