Results 1 to 10 of 16
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Threaded View
-
04-27-2011, 05:16 AM #1
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 1,808
Deportation Halted for Some Students as Lawmakers Seek New
Deportation Halted for Some Students as Lawmakers Seek New Policy
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: April 26, 2011
Olga Zanella, a Mexican-born college student in Texas, should have started months ago trying to figure out how she could make a life in Mexico, since American immigration authorities were working resolutely to deport her there.
Blogs
But Ms. Zanella, 20, could not bring herself to make plans. She was paralyzed by fear of a violent country she could not remember, where she had no close family.
Ms. Zanella, who has been living illegally in the United States since her parents brought her here when she was 5, had been trying to fight her deportation for more than two years. She was pulled over by the local police in February 2009 as she was driving in her hometown, Irving, Tex., and did not have a driver’s license. The police handed her over to immigration agents.
Her case looked bleak, but in recent days everything changed. Last Thursday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in Dallas summoned Ms. Zanella and told her she could remain in this country, under the agency’s supervision, if she stayed in school and out of trouble.
Encouraged by the surprising turnaround, Ms. Zanella’s parents and two siblings, who also had been living in the United States illegally, presented papers late Monday to ICE, as the agency is known, turning themselves in and requesting some form of legal immigration status.
“It’s an opportunity we are going to take,â€
BRUTAL! Bill Melugin Throws Down Against Jim Jordan and GOP...
05-10-2024, 04:20 PM in illegal immigration News Stories & Reports