Thread: ‘Face' of Georgia's immigration debate could be deported

By: Jaclyn Schultz
POSTED:MAY 10 2017 11:11PM EDT
UPDATED:MAY 10 2017 11:16PM EDT

KENNESAW, Ga. - She was the face of Georgia’s debate on immigration and fought to finish her degree at Kennesaw State University.

Now, seven years later, Jessica Colotl said she fears she could get deported after she learned Monday her federal protected status was revoked.

“I was shocked. I didn’t know what to think,” Colotl said.

Colotl, who has since graduated from KSU and worked as a paralegal, learned that her protected status under the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" program had been revoked by immigration authorities.

“I had to stop work... I can’t do anything,” said Colotl. “My life is on hold.”

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials would not disclose the reason for the review coordinated with U.S. Immigration Services, Colotl said she believes the recent ordeal started months ago when she requested federal permission to travel back to Mexico to visit her sick mother.

Her attorney gave FOX News documents signed by an attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Documents dated March 29, 2017, stated: "Due to respondent's criminal history, she is an enforcement priority... requests that the Immigration Judge enter an order of removal to Mexico."

ICE said the ordeal stems from a run-in with the law years ago that launched her into the national spotlight.

In 2010, she was arrested on the KSU campus while she was a student for driving without a valid license. She was flagged as an illegal immigrant, having been brought into the country at just 10 years old.

In 2013, Cobb County dismissed those charges.

In a statement to FOX 5 News, ICE officials asserted:

“Jessica Colotl, an unlawfully present Mexican national, admitted guilt to a felony charge in august 2011 of making a false statement to law enforcement in Cobb County, Georgia... Under federal law, her guilty plea is considered a felony conviction for immigration purposes.”

“ICE has literally created a situation... that allows her to be deported again,” said immigration attorney Charles Kuck.

Kuck said Colotl never pleaded guilty to any traffic violations, years ago; he also said has never seen federal authorities revoke someone's "deferred action from deportation" with someone who was never convicted. He said his office has filed a lawsuit for a judge to review her case and restore her status.

“We’re concerned, with not only what could happen to me, but any other dreamers,” said Colotl.

Kuck said he hopes he can have the case before a judge by early next week.

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/253905852-story

A search of her name brings up various articles in our archives. Here is an example:

Undocumented student found guilty of driving without a license

She and the rest of them should have been deported years ago. What a mess!

Take your degree and get out!

Sell out, pack up and go back to your relatives before you leave with nothing.

Goodbye and good riddance.

Sounds to me like she needs to be reunited with her mother. This family is separated!

May 13, 2017
By Monica Showalter

Most news accounts on the Jessica Colotl case, that of a DREAMer activist whose DACA status was revoked for having an arrest record, and is being sent back home to Puebla, Mexico, carefully outline the typical narrative in such cases. They're all honor students. They're all achievers. They're all children forced to come to the U.S. through no fault of their own, via their parents who brought them here illegally. They're all victims of circumstance and 'unwitting' political activists. They're all wonderful citizens in all but name only, save for that one little lack of papers. They're all entitled.

There's never any dimension to the 'narrative.' Which is why Colotl's case is being painted as an outrage in lower-quality news reporting outfits, such as Fox News, and with a bit more disguised objectivity in the likes of the New York Times. Breitbart may be an exceptiion, but it often leaves questions unasked.

Such as, what's wrong with life in Mexico after getting a full ride from the gringos in education? Why is being sent back to Mexico always depicted as the pit of hell when a deportation is the issue, but at any other time, is a fairly well-heeled third world country where most people live pretty well? Such as, why the government of Mexico, and other places that send illegal immigrants and benefit from their remittances, can escape all scrutiny and responsibility for bad conditions in their home country such that people want to leave? Explain to us how a light-skinned Mexican who has spent his or her life discriminating against darker skinned people in the Mexico as the hacienda lordling, can get affirmative action privileges over here, displacing some trailer-raised white kid from a broken home for a university place? Explain to us why the highest profile DREAMer cases always involve some political science major who claims to not be interested in politics or activism? Or why so many DREAMer activists are well past their mid-20s as they agitate with their NGO buddies and leftwing lawyers?.

It gets old, given that none of these questions are ever asked.

In any case, now we are reading the sob stories and being told to be shocked because young Jessica Colotl, is being asked to return to her parents in her native Puebla, Mexico. Apparently, there couldn't be any fate worse than that. Colotl was caught driving without a license a few years ago, lied to the cops about her address and now expects to be allowed to stay here despite not showing any evidence she believes in obeying laws or rules. Solely because she wants to. And we, the legal-American community, are being asked to scrap our rule of law-based system to one more like Mexico's subjective one, just to accomodate her. Because she wants it.

Spare us this rubbish, it's getting so old it's like an aged tequila.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/..._gets_old.html