Posted on 06/10/2016 8:04:09 AM PDT by simpson96
AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas high school valedictorian who described herself as "undocumented" in a tweet touting her academic accomplishments said she didn't intend to cause offense.
"My tweet wasn't made to mock anyone. I just wanted to show that no matter what barriers you have in front of you, you can still succeed," Mayte Lara told the Austin American-Statesman on Wednesday.
Lara graduated June 3 from Crockett High School in Austin. The 17-year-old's tweet read: "Valedictorian, 4.5GPA, full tuition paid for at UT, 13 cords/medals, nice legs, oh and I'm undocumented."
The tweet went viral and generated a barrage of negative comments online, most calling for her to leave the country and expressing anger at her University of Texas scholarship.
"First and foremost, I can fully admit that I should've been more cautious about my word choice, especially in these times where everything you say gets twisted and bashed on," she said in a statement to CBS affiliate KEYE. "However, I don't deserve the harassment I've been receiving and I should be proud of where I come from."
Lara said she was unprepared for the backlash and decided to deactivate her account "in attempts to ignore the harmful comments," she said.
"It was a common trend on twitter to highlight your success through a tweet like that, and I saw many other students from across the country doing the same and sharing the things they'd overcome, so I thought I'd share mine," she said to KEYE.
That’s another student, not the one that had the tweet. The twitter is the Texas U ‘ship.
BTW, “4.5 GPA, nice legs” is NOT a list of “barriers”, so I call BS.
Do HS in TX habitually have 5.0 as ideal? I’m used to 4.0 all around; not that in HS we really paid attention. You were just an A or B student.
!!!this!!!!
If she is so proud then why don’t she go live there?? and it is theft plain and simple.
Along with a MEXICAN flag.
Sick of that #@%$@#$
“I just wanted to show that no matter what barriers you have in front of you, you can still succeed,”
Burglars, take note.
What makes you think the salutatorian is legal?
OPEN BORDERS NOW!/s
I wonder if Yale will grant her a full scholarship now...
My daughter has to pay for hers.
She didn’t mean anything by it, except to say that she and her family broke the law and got rewarded for it.
If she’s surprised at the reaction, then she’s not very perceptive.
Arrogant bitch!
So...complains about America and the racist attitudes here...but won’t go back her own country to help fix it.
This 4.5 garbage shows how broken these systems are. This illegal has gamed multiple systems for years.
Deport her.
I think the misunderstanding is all ours.
She got into YALE and graduated. Regardless to not being a legal American citizen.
Seems (now) that the world caters to the naïve and silly.
She needs to just stop talking online about this. For many people, every new remark she makes, just stirs the anger up again.
No, that was a 2nd student having nothing to do with the headline. She graduated high school, and has ‘ship to Yale; she has not gone to college yet.
She's not playing the immigrant card...that's second...she's playing the girl card and I'll betcha that Hillary is behind her unusual tweet.
In other words, the whole thing is a setup. Wonder who signed for her as a reference?
Did she lie at all on her college applications?
Yes, I'd like to know.
I also suspect she'll be getting a tour of the Whitehouse soon and Obama will make her kneel and he will confer citizenship upon her.
I love it. She needs to be the poster child for everything wrong with current policies and “leaders.” It only helps Trump.
They won’t give her citizenship, they’ll just put her on the Supreme Court.
you should be returned there immediately.
Screw you, Gringo!
I got the education and the sheepskin—for free!
ON YOU!!! HA HA!!
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