Posted on 06/12/2025 9:40:57 PM PDT by algore
A graduate student fears she won't be able to complete her 11th year of college in America because President Donald Trump might deport her.
Oriette D’Angelo, a doctoral student studying Spanish and Gender, Women and Sexuality studies at the University of Iowa, moved from her home country of Venezuela to Chicago in 2015 on a student visa.
The 34-year-old, who is also a professor, chose to flee her home of Lechería after she watched it decline.
Although she's been in the US for years to seek academic and professional opportunities, D’Angelo is scared her dreams could soon be crushed by Trump's administration as he continues to crackdown on illegal citizens in America.
After finding out that her studies might come to an end, D’Angelo, who often writes poetry around themes of dictatorship for class, told friends she would mail Trump's administration notebooks of her work if she was forced to head back to Venezuela.
'It would be almost impossible to start over,' she told the Chicago Tribune.
Over the years, D’Angelo has come face to face with immigration rules and guidelines, including when her Venezuelan passport expired in 2020
She then applied for temporary protected status (TPS), which was introduced under former President Joe Biden to help citizens of countries stricken by war or natural disaster get temporary work.
Because consulate buildings were closed at that time due to Venezuela's shattered relationship with the US, she had to travel to Colombia to renew it, D’Angelo told the outlet.
When she came back to the US in November 2024, D’Angelo was processed under TPS, not her student visa, as she made her way through O’Hare International Airport.
She had officially lost her foreign student status even though her whole reason for moving to the US was for her to study.
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Go away, and ándale. Rapido, please.
That same month, she also made a personal decision to marry her girlfriend Kayla Harder, but according to D’Angelo, they chose to do so because of their concern over federal attacks on LGBTQ rights, not because of immigration fears.
Eleven years of college?! My question is, who's paying?!
Not the Bee?!
“My question is, who’s paying?!”
Do you have a mirror?
Ha ha. True.
Gender studies takes about five seconds.
There are two sexes, male and female.
Here’s your diploma.
“who often writes poetry around themes of dictatorship for class”
Are we paying for this?
Well, I guess that's an easy A.
Maybe she moved here because she couldn't speak the language at home.
Also, wanted to figure out what a woman was.
Makes perfect sense.
Deport her immediately. Seize her assets.
What a clown taking clown studies. This perpetual student sounds like an illegal alien parasite. Toss her!
LOL! Same thing I thought of.
She had plenty of opportunities over 11 years to become a US citizen or apply for a green card. She chose to just go on student visas and only when the manure hit the fan did she now worry about her continuing to legally live in the US. Too bad so sad.
Note to the DM: That's funny. Per her LinkedIn, she's a TA.
Eleven years? I wonder what her student loan balance is by now. Any bets on whether or not it will be paid off??
They don’t want to go back and improve their home country.
They want the cush, easy life with everything handed to them by the government.
You wont see this story posted by our media.
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