Be careful. The last time undocumented students tried to meet Sen. Cornyn back in 2007, the Sen. refused to meet them and would only meet with citizen immigration activists that accompanied them. He said these undocumented students were "flaunting" their illegal status.
Cornyn rejects students
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Three Dallas students who traveled to Washington on Wednesday had high hopes for the bill's passage.
All of them entered the U.S. before they were 11, brought by Mexican parents seeking work, they said.
It was their first trip to Washington and they were dressed for important meetings with senators. A meeting with Ms. Hutchison's staff lasted about a half-hour. But Mr. Cornyn would not allow them into his office because they were not legal residents, he said.
Smarting from that rejection, one of the students, an 18-year-old woman, said she would have told Mr. Cornyn: "Put yourself in our shoes. Try to imagine your life as an immigrant."
Mr. Cornyn said his staff met with Larry James and Silvia Bustos, immigration activists from Dallas who accompanied the students. But his staff would not meet with people "who admit to not being legally in the country or are here in violation of immigration laws – basically flaunting that," Mr. Cornyn said.
Though the three students said they were seeking legal avenues to citizenship, they nevertheless live under the threat of deportation, said Mr. James, a Dallas pastor and president of Central Dallas Ministries.
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EAD/DACA Renewal: 10/8/2014