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All I Want for Christmas Is for My Parents to Not Be Deported
Teen Vogue ^ | December 14, 2017 | by Jasmine Lopez

Posted on 12/14/2017 11:39:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

My name is Jasmine Lopez, I’m 11 years old and I’m a U.S. citizen. If Congress doesn't take action now, I may not have my mom with me for the holidays.

Why is this important for me? Because I’ve already experienced something close to losing my dad, and I don’t want that to happen ever again.

I was born in Florida, but both my parents were born in Mexico and are living in the U.S. undocumented. Even though they were always careful when driving to work or to the grocery store, one day things got real for all of us. My dad was detained while driving because he couldn’t get a drivers license. Thankfully, we were able to get him out of detention so he wouldn’t get deported.

As a kid in this country, I have the constitutional right to pursue happiness. But without a Dream Act that allows my mom to stay and doesn't hurt my dad, I’m not fulfilling my right. That’s why, instead of writing a letter to Santa this year, I decided to write a letter to Congress and ask them to act now. Last week, I even flew to Washington D.C. to deliver my letter directly to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, but he wouldn’t open the door for me.

My mom’s DACA expires on December 22nd, the exact same day as the deadline that Congress has to make a decision. Please, Congress, put in a vote. Allow my childhood to continue instead of ending it by separating my family.

All I want for Christmas is Congress to pass a clean Dream Act. It would be like a miracle for many immigrant families like mine.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; deportation; illegalaliens; immigration; invasion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Please, Congress, put in a vote. Allow my childhood to continue instead of ending it by separating my family. “


Please, Congress, vote so Jasmine will be forever with her family,
in Mexico.
And while you are at it, make some votes to prevent illegal immigrants child abuse.


121 posted on 12/14/2017 12:56:30 PM PST by miniTAX (n)
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To: Pelham
#50: "Let’s buy Jasmine a plane ticket so she … can live with her parents in their country."

Yes, Mexico is her parents' country. However it's Jasmine's too. She is only loosely speaking an "American". She's really a Mexican who was born here.

She's exploiting the wording of the Constitution. She is as much an American as, oh, as let's say Obama. Both he and Jasmine should return to their own countries.

By the way, you are way too generous suggesting a plane ticket. A bus ticket is might good enough. It would get her used to bus travel, a time honored tradition in Mexico, and reacquaint Jasmine with her roots.
 

122 posted on 12/14/2017 12:57:56 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Jasmine, you don’t have to be separated from your parents, you can always go with them if it happens.


123 posted on 12/14/2017 12:59:03 PM PST by falcon99
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This was just another “BS” DACA commercial. It is all a lie because Obama created it to be a lie.

rwood


124 posted on 12/14/2017 12:59:46 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Actually it’s not even in the Constitution.

‘Anchor babies’ is the result of a poorly decided court case. The children of foreign nationals, whether they were ambassadors, visitors, or illegal aliens, were never covered before that decision.

That decision needs to be overturned.


125 posted on 12/14/2017 1:04:20 PM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

First thing I thought. BS article.


126 posted on 12/14/2017 1:05:21 PM PST by refermech
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

http://www.cairco.org/issues/anchor-babies


127 posted on 12/14/2017 1:07:13 PM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Adios, Jasmine. Vaya con Dios!


128 posted on 12/14/2017 1:09:45 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All I want for /Christmas 6s an Orange EW 54 Electric
Mobility Scooter!


129 posted on 12/14/2017 1:24:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone get the mini-violin out and post it. Thank you!


130 posted on 12/14/2017 1:39:06 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mexico’s beautiful this time of year, Jasmine. Repatriate to the country of your parents and ancestors. You aren’t a U.S. citizen just because you’re an anchor baby. That’s just a leftist reinterpretation of our laws employed to swamp our country with masses of third worlders who know nothing about constitutional limited government, liberty, and personal responsibility. Adios and Feliz Navidad.


131 posted on 12/14/2017 1:42:35 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: pgkdan

Exactly right. And I really think some 40-year-old lib wrote this, not an 11-year-old kid.


132 posted on 12/14/2017 1:52:59 PM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: bgill

It’s likely not even a kid who actually wrote this.


133 posted on 12/14/2017 2:28:05 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Feliz Navidad, back in your legal country of residence...


134 posted on 12/14/2017 3:04:24 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sorry kid but your parents have failed you. They made a giant error, totally disrespecting the law.

Sympathy for you is not a morally sufficient cause for disregarding their error. Laws cannot be turned on and off by sympathy, when they are the laws we have. We have a civilized society whose very basis is we will respect the law. Without it we do not have civilization; we have societies with no laws, just those in power and what they say goes.

To repair what has happened to our society by massive flagrant illegal activity against our immigration laws, we have to end such activity and to start we need to undo as much of the existing illegality that has occurred.

You are a victim, that’s true. Not of U.S. immigration law, but of the massive and flagrant disrespect of that law.

If your parents get deported, I suggest you go with your parents, and keep your family together. THAT will be more important to you in the long run.


135 posted on 12/14/2017 3:42:51 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Eleven years and mom hasn’t tried to become a citizen?

Tough luck, kiddo.


136 posted on 12/14/2017 3:54:22 PM PST by hattend
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
then by all means, GTFO and go with her!!!
137 posted on 12/14/2017 4:04:28 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Anchor baby Jasmine should want her parents to accept responsibility for breaking our immigration laws, and return to Mexico to apply for legal entry.”


Actually this post at its core has great ideas. Deport the family. Once the child is granted independence from her parents, either before or after deportation, the child can stay or reenter the US.

In the case of those children brought into the US illegally as children, they would be deported with their parents back to their original homeland. Once these children are of age they can be put on a list, vetted as to their allegiance to our Constitution, and then allowed to come back.

If there is any record of illegality prior to or after deportation (including illegal reentry), the child is forbidden to return. If there is any illegality after they return they are to be deported and forbidden reentry.


138 posted on 12/14/2017 5:36:12 PM PST by Yulee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

seems to me her parents are in the us but not subject to its jurisdiction by being here illegally and their children born here should not be us citizens..at least that’s my take

they all should leave in a just world.


139 posted on 12/14/2017 5:54:09 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I was born in Florida, but both my parents were born in Mexico and are living in the U.S. undocumented.

They are here illegally. Do you know what illegally means? Also, who wrote all this for you? They're using you.
140 posted on 12/14/2017 5:59:54 PM PST by Trillian
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