Posted on 07/21/2010 7:33:30 AM PDT by TheDon
WASHINGTON – A UC Irvine graduate arrested Tuesday on Capitol Hill while demonstrating for a bill to help illegal immigrant students knew she could be deported but decided to sacrifice for the cause, fellow activists said.
Capitol police arrested Antonia Rivera, 28, of Santa Ana, and 11 other young people for disorderly conduct as they sat in a circle in the middle of the Hart Senate Office Building. Nine more activists were arrested later Tuesday for unlawful entry at the offices of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Antonia Rivera, a UC Irvine graduate, came to Washington, D.C., this week to demonstrate for passage of the DREAM Act.
The actions were intended to convince lawmakers to support the DREAM Act. The bill would give a chance at legal status to people brought illegally to the United States at a young age and who were educated here.
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But the most dramatic protest of the day came on the floor of the Hart building, as Rivera and the others, all dressed in graduation cap and gowns, sat silently in a circle surrounding banners which read "Undocumented and Unafraid" and "DREAM Act Now."
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this bs...they should obey the laws of the land ...no one should be above the law thogh some are. most of our congressmen would be in prison if laws were enforced.
Adios Antonia. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass. Maybe that fine gringo degree will allow you to prepare tacos more efficiently.
She is a criminal trespasser who stole a set at our university from a citizen. I would jail her first for criminal fraud, the deport her.
Before they deport her she should be charged for the taxpayer supported portion of her education.
Why doesn’t she go back to help rebuild her Country????
Deport them all they have broken the law!
Remind me what the penalty is for being in Mexico illegally and demonstrating against your host country.
Reminds me of this woman down here in Georgia! http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/kennesaw-state-student-participates-574610.html
Well...bye.
Oh, before you go, you owe the University of California system the difference between in-state and out-state tuition for four years at UC Irvine, plus you must repay any and all student loans or aid that you received. If you can’t pay, we’ll attach your personal assets, and if those don’t cover it, well, we’ll work out a payment schedule from your Mexican wages. Adios, senorita!
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The bigger problem is that California aids and abets their larceny, and the taxpayers pick up the tab. The phrase ‘boiling mad’ comes to mind.
Looks like she has a history of making poor judgements. Mistake number 1- a journalism degree? A degree in a dying industry.Welcome to McDonald’s.I hope the government did not waste taxpayer dollars providing these individuals with Pell grants.
Unfortunately, she just guaranteed she’ll never be deported. Now her name and photo have been captured by the media and they’ll make sure ICE doesn’t lay a glove on her.
I presume all those who participated in this illegal sit-down protest in the Senate office building had the same goal in mind: to immunize themselves against being deported.
Deport her illegal ass before she starts to breed.
REFERENCE The Center for Immigration Studies-----using estimates developed by the National Academy of Sciences-----calculates that over a lifetime, the average adult Mexican immigrant will collect $55,200 more in government services than he or she will pay in taxes.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates Hispanic illegal immigrants are a net cost to the country as a whole of $45 billion.
FAIR estimates that the net cost to state and local governments for the education, incarceration, and emergency medical care of illegal aliens is $36 billion.
The net cost to California is $8.8 billion, or $1,183 per native household, and for Texas it is $3.73 billion, or $725 per household. In California alone, the heavy cost of free medicine for illegal aliens - the overwhelming majority of whom are Hispanic - forced 60 hospitals to shut down between 1993 and 2003; many more are on the verge of collapse.
SOURCE Madeleine Pelner Cosman, “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2005), p. 6. John D. Kasarda and James H. Johnson, Jr., “The Economic Impact of the Hispanic Population on the State of North Carolina” (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, 2006), p. ix.
Even without ObamaCare, it is presently against the law to refuse healthcare to illegals. Illegal aliens actually bump US citizens for healthcare. Mexico, the country that is the staging area for illegal invasions, has long-promoted America’s generous public health centers.
The Mexican govt operates Ventanillas de Salud---a Spanish-language program---in about 12 US cities that refers its nationals on US soil illegally---to clinics where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.”
If individuals in this situation would plead for mercy rather than demand “rights” that they do not have or deserve, they would have a much better chance at being given a break.
America is generally a very kind nation, that does not like to see young people punished for the sins of their parents. I suspect a majority of Americans would put aside the very real concern about rewarding and encouraging the illegal behavior of their parents, IF these young people would lose their attitude of entitlement and humbly ask for a break, while acknowledging that they are by no means owed it.
Unfortunately, their haughty, obnoxious, entitled attitude and their “Undocumented and Unafraid” slogan and their open defiance of the law, demonstrate that they have no more respect for our nation and our laws than their parents, who illegally invaded our country.
Send that Mexican citizen home,,,
I am amazed how many people are willing to support the illegals with welfare, housing, medical costs, schooling, etc and NOT willing to pay to protect the border instead.
I live in Mexico. The penalty would be immediate prison until they get a judge to write the deportation order. Then if you are here and demonstrate against anything the government does, you are taken to prison and held for an unknown time then deported. You cannot take anything with you. If you own property, have a car, bank account you forefit it to the government. No appeals allowed.
What kind of punishment is deportation?
All they will do is sneak back.
Now, if we put them into a holding facility for 6 months to a year before deporting them that would be different.
Excellent point.
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