I'm sure there's some grand strategy behind this policy, but I'm having trouble seeing it:
Late this spring, while her friends stayed late after AP classes to fill out college applications, Mejia and her mother hired an immigration lawyer in Manassas to file a motion to reopen their case. The lawyer explained that nothing in the law offered Mejia reason to hope. Democrats had yet to pass their Dream Act, which would create a path to citizenship for students who came to the country as minors and completed two years of college or military service. A Republican congressman had only recently introduced the Stars Act, which would give illegal immigrants a chance to finish college and earn permanent residency.“Our only hope is to show the immigration officials proof of every positive thing you’ve done and hope for leniency,” the lawyer said, and so Mejia started working on an application of her own. She mailed off her SAT scores, her family photos, her school transcripts dating back to first grade and her certificate of participation in the sixth-grade science fair. She made appointments with teachers, confessed to them for the first time that she had come to the country illegally and then asked them to write letters of recommendation.
“Heydi is very polite, positive and full of energy,” the principal wrote in an official statement.
“She is an A student maintaining a 99 average in my class,” the English teacher wrote.
“Just a great person all around,” the cosmetology instructor wrote.
Mejia typed up a lengthy cover letter, reusing phrases from her college essay about extracurricular activities and concluding her application with a final appeal.
“These are the people I know and have shared my whole life with,” she wrote. “They are the ones I want with me when I’m graduating from college or getting married. I plead that you take this statement into consideration.”
The Department of Homeland Security wrote its response one day after receiving Mejia’s application.
“Motion to reopen should be denied as a matter of law,” it read.
Her deportation date was scheduled for mid-June so she could attend her high school graduation.
Someone could put a stop to this inhumane shit by issuing an executive order. So why isn't it being done?
---Vitelius
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