The Seven Year Saga of One Undocumented Student in Georgia

Applying for AP and administrative closure of her deportation case was the trigger. Even after BIA ordered it closed, they are still going hard after her. This is insane.

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This is why it's important to talk with an immigration lawyer always for any crime! We most worry about immigration law at all times! Slap on the risks crimes that would give a citizen community service will have a Daca recipient deported ! It's important to beat any charge at all cost if it will effect immigration law even if pealing guilty is just a $50 ticket!

Stripped of DACA for such a minor thing. Feel very bad for her.

I am surprise the "deport that illegal alien now I got the bus right here " DAP crew isn't here to condemn her.

Ah. So she is the poor lout they used to eventually ban all undocumented students from State Universities, on the ground that it "depleted states resources" - regardless if they only made up .03% of all students :

"In 2008, the legislature had passed a law forcing undocumented students to pay out-of-state tuition at public colleges. Colotl, who began college before the law was passed, wasn’t paying the out-of-state rate at the time of her arrest, and state Republicans tried to make an example out of her. They called on the Georgia Board of Regents, which oversees the public-university system, to root out undocumented students, who made up less than one per cent of the over-all student population. They also threatened to pass bills banning undocumented students from attending public universities."

Georgia is a toilet - especially if your a undocumented Uni-age person.
I would know, I lived through it.

Damn. What a wild ride

Yeah, her case set all of that into motion. I left Georgia and so did several other activists I know to attend private colleges up north because even low level state colleges wanted us to pay upwards of $10k as international students.

I cannot imagine how many other people have left the state because of it. Emory is now helping first time college students pay the full cost of their tuition, so that's a plus! But, for many of us that got caught up in the mess created by the Board of Regents after her case, it didn't help us so we had to find other options and transfer out-of-state.

I was myself fortunate to have been in my senior year of College when the Board of Regents began to demand out-of-state tuition from Dreamers. I believe they eventually even barred undocumented students attending altogether, from what they laughably termed their "top State Universities".

My heart ached for a young Dreamer, a year or so ago, who was a HS senior at the time, when it was revealed to him that he could not join his peers and close friends at GT or UGA - despite his years of scorning delights and laborious days; those late nights studying, the sacrifices of material and financial support of caring family.

And for what? For the privilege of attending a obscure state university, paying out-of-state tuition?

Their is something implacably disconcerting in watching a young person of promise hopes being frustrated - so contrary does it seem to our sense of natural, human justice.

I suppose it is just our lot - our isolated and personal tragedy.

I agree with you, but I honestly think it was not only about their misplaced hate but it was also about money. Even though there were so few of us, we'd essentially be paying 5x what a single HOPE student would be paying to attend community colleges.

It's disheartening, but we're in a better place now with DACA and so many schools accepting undocumented students than at that time. My school takes DACA and undocumented students who did not qualify for DACA. They also assist with DACA application fees, have a support group for younger DREAMers and counseling for those that don't qualify for DACA. The support here is amazing and something that I would not have had at a university in Georgia.