Deportation delayed for St. Mary's grad (DREAMie SOB STORY) (illegally, Mexico, interviews)
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So let's have them drop their education, and start their life ANEW? They should drop their lives because you and others are having a hissy fit? In this particular case, a college student should stop her studies because you are mad? It's really none of your concern, seeing how they are actually going to be beneficial to society. I thought you were all about having more educated people here?
I don’t object to anyone getting an education. As a matter of fact, I encourage it. However, these particular students expect to be granted amnesty for their efforts. I have a problem with that. Why should they be rewarded for living in this country illegally? If they want to attend college, let them pay the higher foreign student rates, just as other non-citizens. They can then return to their countries of origin equipped to make a difference.
I have legal immigrant friends who did study in Mexican universities. What's stopping this girl from taking advantage of a good education she received here at taxpayer expense, studying in one of the very good Mexican universities, getting a great education and a field of study that would make her a prime candidate for legal immigration?
Nothing stops her from doing that. Except she doesn't want to compete with other would-be legal immigrants. She expects to be given everything.
I don’t object to anyone getting an education. As a matter of fact, I encourage it. However, these particular students expect to be granted amnesty for their efforts. I have a problem with that. Why should they be rewarded for living in this country illegally? If they want to attend college, let them pay the higher foreign student rates, just as other non-citizens. They can then return to their countries of origin equipped to make a difference.
If you don't object, then why put extra pressure for them to obtain and education? You do object otherwise you would allow them to continue their studies. See, again it's not as if they simply are foriegn students. They lived in America. Their roots are here. Going home is not an easy feat. Trying to redo the procedure of getting back into college is NOT easy. My friend took off a quarter. It took her HALF that time to get all her ducks lined in a row to come back. It will be even harder for these people.
If you don't object, then why put extra pressure for them to obtain and education? You do object otherwise you would allow them to continue their studies. See, again it's not as if they simply are foriegn students. They lived in America. Their roots are here. Going home is not an easy feat. Trying to redo the procedure of getting back into college is NOT easy. My friend took off a quarter. It took her HALF that time to get all her ducks lined in a row to come back. It will be even harder for these people.
Again: we owe those DREAMie criminals nothing aside of deportation from the USA.
You'd have to be a pretty rigid 18 year old to be unable to adapt to university life in Mexico. We don't need that limited kind of person here.
SHE STARTED HER STUDIES HERE!!! It's not limiting, it's practicality. Tell you what, drop your job and do the same job in a different state. You can do it. I won't limit you.
Have you seen any of those campuses? Mexico had universities before the USA did -- what a great opportunity it would be to study at La Universidad de Mexico for example, live in Mexico City with the museums, the archeological sites near by. I really like that campus.
The diploma process is different per country!!! It's not as if you have US diploma you can automatically get in anywhere. I applied to UTC (Cape Town) after high school. I realized that I could because I was IB, but I wasn't I couldn't.
If you don't object, then why put extra pressure for them to obtain and education? You do object otherwise you would allow them to continue their studies. See, again it's not as if they simply are foriegn students. They lived in America. Their roots are here. Going home is not an easy feat. Trying to redo the procedure of getting back into college is NOT easy. My friend took off a quarter. It took her HALF that time to get all her ducks lined in a row to come back. It will be even harder for these people.
A Mexican university education is not necessarily inferior to one here. Some are actually better -- did you realize that?
Let's all not forget she has that option.
My roots were really in the USA, and not illegally at all. I was a bit older than this one and I found Mexico to be quite fascinating. And yes, I've seen a number of the campuses first hand and there is nothing wrong with them.
SHE STARTED HER STUDIES HERE!!! It's not limiting, it's practicality. Tell you what, drop your job and do the same job in a different state. You can do it. I won't limit you.
So did I! I had lived all my life in this country, I took 2 semesters of Spanish and headed down to study in Mexico. It was the time of my life, I learned a lot and saw a lot.
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The diploma process is different per country!!! It's not as if you have US diploma you can automatically get in anywhere. I applied to UTC (Cape Town) after high school. I realized that I could because I was IB, but I wasn't I couldn't.
If her high school education didn't prepare her for university level in Mexico, then she really isn't college level. I'm sure there's some kind of preparatory level education in her country, or she could select some kind of training program.
If you don't object, then why put extra pressure for them to obtain and education? You do object otherwise you would allow them to continue their studies. See, again it's not as if they simply are foriegn students. They lived in America. Their roots are here. Going home is not an easy feat. Trying to redo the procedure of getting back into college is NOT easy. My friend took off a quarter. It took her HALF that time to get all her ducks lined in a row to come back. It will be even harder for these people.
The fact that they were brought to this country illegally by their parents does not obligate this country to provide them with a college education. This is not the only country in the world with universities. If they sincerely desire a college education, they can either pay the higher foreign rates (they aren’t citizens) or return to their countries of origin. It’s that simple.
My ex-husband came here from Argentina to attend college. He adapted very well. So well, he eventually made it his home.
Essentially we should allow those that are creating a better life for themselves to stay. I see no harm in that. We would not be telling Mexico your message. Rather, we will be saying, "Congrats on obtaining something that roughly 70% of the all persons in the US are not able to obtain".
This all relates to how we should reform immigration/citizenship laws.
Are you kidding me? The U.S. could NEVER bear the weight of all the people who want to come here for a better life. That's totally idealistic and completely unrealistic.
Does the word "floodgate" mean anything to you? Because if your vision of allowing anybody who wants to, to come into the U.S., every became a reality, the floodgates would open, and the U.S. would literally drown.
My ex-husband came here from Argentina to attend college. He adapted very well. So well, he eventually made it his home.
Lots of college people go to some other country as students -- I know in the college I attended in the USA, there were foreign students from just about every country, every continent.
It simply cannot be impossible for someone born in Mexico, born to a Mexican family, exposed all her life to the language and culture would have such a terrible time adapting to that country. Even American retirees move down there to live and easily adapt.
If the pro-illegal side were at least rational and honest that Mexico isn't necessarily like falling off the face of the earth, it would sure be refreshing.
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