Posted on 03/02/2012 5:44:32 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
A high school valedictorian with big dreams says her future could be ruined by an immigration nightmare.
And with all her awards, metals and accolades Daniela Pelaez is well on her way.
"I love school. I love education. I'm the valedictorian of my high school," said Pelaez.
Daniela is a senior at North Miami Senior High School where she's in the international baccalaureate program and has a 6.7 grade point average.
"I applied to Yale. I applied to Dartmouth, Duke University, Trinity and Wesley," she said.
But just days before she'll find out if she's been accepted to any of those colleges she may be forced to leave the country.
On March 28th, Daniela and her sister are scheduled be deported back to Columbia.
"I've been here since I was 4, I'm American," she said.
Daniela and her siblings came to America with her parents back in 1991.
Her parents divorced and in 2006 when her mother had to go back to Columbia for medical reasons she was denied access back into the country.
Daniela now lives with her father---who's a resident---but on Monday a judge deciding she and her sister can no longer live here.
More than 3,000 people already signing an online petition to stop Pelaez from being deported.
Daniela's attorney is appealing the court's decision.
Her classmates at North Miami senior High School are rallying in support and plan to walk out of class Friday morning in protest.
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If her dad is a resident he should have applied for legal status for his offspring
no doubt she'll get full freight paid by “someone else” for a quarter million in tuition and fees, while many of the the poor slobs walking out to protest her entitled treatment will be lucky to make out of pocket tuition at dade community college
She's smart, has energy and drive -- why she's a potential REPUBLICAN! They HAVE to deport her.
You are mistaking Colombia for Cuba or Venezuela. I supply medical products into their health system (freer in many respects than ours). It is not a “socialist” country and they just finished fighting and beating a twenty year Communist insurgency (with US military support) to keep it that way. Now they are the only bulwark against (Hugo) Chavezismo spreading out from Venezuela. Hence my suspicion, stated above, about “wrong” (to Obamazombies) politics having a role in all this.
You people should be ashamed! I cannot sit by and let this outrageous thing happen!
I promise to forward her mail to her address in Colombia so that she can know that she has been accepted or not.
The other day there was a story about a sorted affair by a politician... heh... sorted
However, if her parents had only recently slipped over the border from Mexico and her father was a member of La Raza I doubt she would be deported especially if she was a registered Democrat and avid Obama supporter. I blame the parents. When her father somehow got legal resident status you would think he would have done so or attempted to for his kids. If he could get legal status why not his kids?
Well, you have to keep track of them somehow ...
... I would guess, alphabetically?
She has taken how many dollars from kids that were citizens, send her ass home to her mother
I would deport her with a trebuchet .
Came here in 1991 at age 4. Graduated high school at age 25! That’s how you get a 6.7.
Exactly! I understand she is a criminal, but IF we are going to enforce immigration selectively, why can’t we SELECT to deport the bad ones?
Alphabetically by height...
South Carolina--or did the writer mean Colombia?
Could she not enlist in the (U.S.) military?
Yep, we have enough of a brain drain in this country. Educated people are having 1-2 kids while trash is having bucket loads.
We should be giving people who earn PHD's in this country an automatic citizenship after a very anal background check. Right now they are heading home and COMPETING against us.
No. Illegal aliens are not eligible to enlist in the armed forces.
^5
What if their PHD is in “womyn’s studies”?
On March 28th, Daniela and her sister are scheduled be deported back to Columbia.
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