Posted on 03/03/2017 1:36:09 PM PST by RC one
A 22-year-old woman brought illegally to the US from Argentina at the age of seven has been arrested after speaking about her plight at a meeting.
Daniela Vargas was detained in Jackson, Mississippi, and could be deported without a hearing, her lawyer said.
She is among 750,000 people - known as "Dreamers" - allowed temporary work permits under an Obama programme, but her status lapsed in November.
President Donald Trump has given mixed signals on the future of the programme.
Ms Vargas's father and brother were detained on 15 February in Jackson. She hid in a cupboard for hours, but was eventually found by armed immigration officers before being questioned and released.
Then on Wednesday, she appeared at a press conference in Jackson City Hall, speaking of her deportation fears and aspirations to become a maths teacher, and calling for a "path to citizenship" for undocumented migrants.
After she left the event, immigration officials pulled her over in a friend's car and took her into custody.
Ms Vargas's lawyer, Abigail Peterson, said her status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme had expired in November 2016, and she had applied to renew it in mid-February, after saving for the $495 (£403) application fee.
Daca provides a two-year reprieve from deportation and permission to apply for a work permit. Ms Vargas had been granted the protection in both December 2012 and November 2014, Ms Peterson said.
She said that Ms Vargas would be treated as a "visa waiver overstay" and as such could be flown to Argentina without an immigration hearing, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
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we are re-uniting her with her family back in her country. We are doing a good deed for her and the family.
End DACA.
Enforce the laws on ALL illegal aliens encountered by ANY law enforcement.
Illegal aliens should not be given the opportunity to harm or kill Americans before they are removed.
Excellent!
I hear Argentina is beautiful this time of year, Daniela.
The US Visa program should be modified to collect money for possible return airfare, i.e., take the cost of deportation up front before admitting them.
“Enforce the laws on ALL illegal aliens encountered by ANY law enforcement.”
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Agreed.
I’ve spent my entire long life obeying the laws, even some that I thought were ridiculous,and these folks could mot care less about the rules..
I don’t care what happens to them.
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Trump started the negotiations over a year ago. It’s time for dems to give a reasonable counter-offer if they want to stop women like this from being deported.
Trumps opening offer was something like
* deport 11 million (bad ones first, be humane, take care of dreamers...)
* build a wall on the entire border
He’ll be working on his offer unless/until Ds come to the table. This women is part of the 11 million he said he’d deport and it’ll happen until an alternate solution is agreed on.
What is the response from Ds?
* how many/who should be deported (0 is not a reasonable counter-offer if they want to get somewhere)
* where does the wall need to be? what other methods should be used to stop new entry/visa-overstay
* how can sanctuary cities be stopped from getting around the details?
Seems like Ds want millions to live in fear and suffer rather than find a solution.
Are all of the Latino 20 something’s going to claim to be DREAM’ers now?My Magic 8 Ball says,”You may rely on it”...
Another case of somebody getting a little too big for their britches.
A PERFECT example of what happens when you are an arrogant loud-mouth bitch! (Are you listening hillary and Fauxcohontas??) Ha! Ha! Ha!
Obama’s illegal DACA program is still operating as if it were law and not something dreamed up by Obama.
Trump was right during the campaign when he said it was an illegal program and that he would end it.
If Trump does not end Obama’s illegal DACA program it becomes Trump’s illegal DACA program.
I do not believe that the Democrats give a ____ about deporting illegal immigrants. I’m pretty sure they just want to be able to blame us for deporting them so they can call us racists and get all the brown people voting Democrat so they can remain in power because power is the only thing that Democrats care about.
She can dream on the entire flight home.
There is a pathway - but only for legal immigrants. She spent how many years here ignoring that path . . . . .
No pic? Gotta establish guilt.
Mexico still bears a grudge. Mexico thinks that what was once theirs is still theirs and they did everything in their power to reclaim what was lost to them. So now, we have what we have here. And as I said, we can also blame all the US politicians that allowed this situation to develop over the past 25 years.
Round them up and get them out.
Also, need to deport (without hearings) everyone who was in attendence at the speech event...
Would they feel better if she was deported BEFORE the Speech?
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