Undocumented students find new voice

CNN ^ | 12/1/03

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Her parents rarely talk about how they sold everything and slipped across the U.S. border one cold October years ago, and Yesenia Sanchez remembers little of the journey that started with a long bus ride from central Mexico when she was 8.

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[gubamyster]

Yesenia Sanchez is getting a lot of ink by the illegal lovers.

[Howie66]

IL-FUGGING-LEGAL ALIENS!!!

LEARN it, LOVE it, LIVE it!

I've had it with this pussy-footing around the issue. These people sneak into OUR country and then have the gonads to DEMAND that we not only sy it's okay, they DEMAND that we feed, clothe, medicate and educate their worthless hides!!

Hey! If you're here ILLEGALLY, grab yourself and git the hell out of here! And, take your lousy "culture" with you!

[CaptainK]

He's frustrated, yet can't imagine returning to Colombia, either. He's even starting to forget Spanish, he said.

Watch UNIVISION. It will all come back to you.

[chicagolady]

Wetbacks go home !

[FITZ]

As an undocumented immigrant, he'd pay out-of-state tuition, more than 11/2 times the amount New Jersey residents pay.

Out-of-state tuition??? What's with these whiners? If someone is in NJ from Texas or Ohio, they too would have to pay out-of-state higher tuition ----- just like the Texan --- if you don't want to pay your higher rates ---- GO BACK HOME!

[SAMWolf]

Growing up in Chicago, she embraced American life -- making friends, joining after-school clubs, watching sitcoms on TV. But when she turned 16 and couldn't get a driver's license, the meaning of her illegal status began to sink in.

Please quit, you're breaking my heart! NOT!!!

I grew up in Chicago too, but my parents didn't come here as criminals. They came LEGALLY. If she has problems now, blame her criminal parents for sneaking into the US.

[FITZ]

Because he's undocumented, the 24-year-old may seek a job at a small company with low pay.

It seems they are forgetting the whole purpose of illegal immigration ---- they come to do the hard work for low pay that Americans don't want to do ---- now they want the high paying jobs that Americans will gladly do ---- so we don't need them ---- maybe their own country does.

[scan58]

"undocumented", eh? The new PC word for ILLEGAL ALIEN! This guy, Stein, hit the nail on the head when he said, "The bill would let illegal immigrants take the place of U.S. citizens in college classrooms."

Because he's undocumented,(I'm going to start hating that word.)...the 24-year-old may seek a job at a small company with low pay.

Well, my undocumented friend, that's one more job my own fully documented son can't get now, isn't it?

[Kuksool]

What nerve! These criminal invaders think they could dictate public policy. They must really think that they own America. I really wish the INS would deport every illegal.

[VU4G10]

Just send them back (.)

[Missouri]

Detractors, however, say the proposal would attract more illegal immigrants.

"Talk about setting off a mad dash at America's borders," said Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

I seen Stein on cable news. He has always impressed me with his knowledge and debating skills.

[janetgreen]

Illegal aliens want in-state tuition. If my 100% American granddaughter wants to go to a college out of California, she'll pay FULL tuition. The illegal aliens just keep demanding more and more, don't they? Whatever happened to LEGAL immigration?

[baxter999]

Here in Utah, as in other states, illegal aliens get to pay in-state tuition which makes them get more tax-payer funded advantages than an American from another state. Viva Aztlan!

[Schatze]

Hey, Yesenia, check out Merriam Webster:

Illegal means not according to or authorized by law.

What part of that don't you understand?

[Mercat]

Flame away but this is someone whom I'm okay with keeping in this country. I heard nothing about her or anyone in her family getting in trouble. Sounds like they worked hard and went to school, didn't drain the welfare system, etc. There has to be someway to keep her here.

[Arpege92]

Boo hoo hoo!

[TLI]

Well, my undocumented friend, that's one more job my own fully documented son can't get now, isn't it?

Absolutely, 100% B-I-N-G-O ! And they do not care one whit about your son or daughter, for them there is only "La Rasa" . . . "The Race"

They AIN'T talking white either.

Folks got to wake up to what these people are saying, because they are not keeping it any kind of a secrete, they want your job, your land, your home, your life and your children's lives.

Just hit their websites and check it out.

[arasina]

You do it for one sob story case and you invite others to disobey the laws. What, should we let her stay because they slipped across the U.S. border one cold October years ago? Romanticizing illegal immigration. Sheesh.

[scan58]

Over the summer my 16 year old son got a job at car wash where nearly everyone else (except one) working there were non-English speaking latinos. He would get paid cash daily. Yes, he was hired at over "minimum wage". If he was there 5 hours, but only actually washed cars 3 hours, he'd get paid for 3. In other words, when the cars weren't rolling thru, he was told to "sit and wait" for no money. He quit and I don't blame him.
But I will tell you one thing...there are many fast food restaurants near my home that would be great for a HS kid needing PT work. He's applied at all of them and called them over and over. It really "irks" me that they put these folks that can barely speak English at the drive thru.