Posted on 08/26/2013 10:45:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lizbeth Mateo, an illegal immigrant member of the so-called "Dream 9" that re-entered the United States seeking asylum, said lawmakers needed to pass an immigration reform bill that also puts deported illegal immigrants on a pathway to citizenship.
Appearing on Al Jazeera America's Consider This last Thursday, Mateo said that the 1.7 million people deported while President Barack Obama has been president "also need a pathway to come home and be united with their families."
"We can do both things," she said of giving all illegal immigrants in the country a pathway to citizenship in addition to those that have been deported. "We deserve to come home."
Mateo, along with eight other illegal immigrants who were brought to this country as children, went back to Mexico and then was detained when she tried to re-enter the United States in July as part of an advocacy stunt for the DREAM Act.
She was released after claiming she would be persecuted in Mexico and immigration officers found she had a "credible fear" of being tortured or persecuted....
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Pathway to citizenship is to deport them back to their home countries where they would be citizens. They should take their children, where said children would not be under the jurisdiction of the US, and hence, not US citizens.
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no damn way!!!
Arrest them.. Try them... loot them.. hang them.. then deport them..
How about illegal alien ID thiefs illegally occupying US public offices?
Open borders=Treason.
Well hell, let’s just grant blanket citizenship to any Mexicans who draw breath regardless of where they are living. /sarc
That wouldn’t be fair to all the other brown people on earth. Give them all citizenship, and start sending them checks, EBT cards, and voter registration applications.
“Mateo said that the 1.7 million people deported while President Barack Obama has been president “also need a pathway to come home and be united with their families.” “
Where did that number come from? We have more in NJ than we’ve ever had before; we bring them here to mask our shrinking population and keep our public schools full.
Waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too much already!
Hey, don’t give the amnesty crowd new ideas!
Lizbeth Mateo,check out her twitter pic...Holding a Mexico Flag and smiling.. https://twitter.com/LizbethMateo
More on Lizbeth Mateo..
CASEY WIAN: 25-year-old Lizbeth Mateo was 14 when she crossed the border from Mexico illegally with her parents. Now, she’s a college graduate, but practically unemployable, because she’s an illegal immigrant.
LIZBETH MATEO, DREAM TEAM LA: I was young and I was naive, and I didn’t really realize what- you know, what I was about to do or how my life would change. I knew I was an undocumented, but I didn’t know what that meant or what- how that would impact my life until I tried to apply to college, and that’s when I realized that having no legal status would affect everything else in my life.
WIAN: You were able to graduate from college, though, despite having no legal status.
MATEO: It was difficult to go through all of that. It was- it took me about six years to finally graduate, and I did that in 2008.
WIAN: So why did you take this risky step of engaging in a sit-in at Senator McCain’s office earlier this week- had yourself arrested; had yourself transferred to ICE custody; and now, you’re in deportation proceedings, and you’re risking making happen what exactly you don’t want to happen, and that’s the possibility of being deported back to your native country, which is Mexico? Why take that risk?
MATEO: Because we want to pass the DREAM Act. We had to do something. We had to take a stand, and show our communities that to create change, you need to have courage and you need to take really bold steps. You know, there’s such an urgency, not only for myself, but for the young people who are graduating from high school and don’t know what to do. Can I access a college education? Can I get the job that they want? Can I travel, get a driver’s license, do simple things that any American kid can do? This is the first time that undocumented youth have taken the risk of- you know, being put in deportation proceedings by taking such a bold action, by staging a sit-in and a peaceful resistance.
WIAN: Have you thought about what’s going to happen- what life is going to be like if you actually are deported back to Mexico?
MATEO: You know, I haven’t really had a chance to think about that. I think-
WIAN: Really? Before you sat down in that office and risked getting arrested, you didn’t think about what it was going to be like?
MATEO: I think- you know, the reason we did it- it wasn’t because we wanted to give attention to ourselves. But the message that we’re really trying to send is that we are willing to make this kind of sacrifices [sic] to make something happen.
WIAN: Lizbeth and other supporters of the DREAM Act say they realize that broad immigration reform is not likely to happen this year, but they say legalizing the status of those who were brought here as minors by their parents illegally is doable, and they’re trying to pressure Congress to make that happen. Casey Wian, CNN, Phoenix, Arizona.
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