Protection from deportation revoked for former cause celebre

[SZonian]

Federal authorities have revoked the protection from deportation granted to a Mexican woman who became a cause celebre in the debate over illegal immigration as a college student in Georgia seven years ago.

Jessica Colotl, 29, was reluctantly thrust into the national spotlight in 2010 after she was pulled over on a traffic charge on the campus of Kennesaw State University, near Atlanta. She was arrested and turned over to federal immigration authorities who kept her in a detention center for 37 days.

Her case was widely covered by the news media after her sorority sisters held posters with her name on them during a march for immigration reform in Atlanta while she was detained. As a visible symbol of the national debate over illegal immigration, her case was regularly cited by advocates on both sides of the issue.

Colotl, who was brought to the U.S. illegally by her parents when she was 11, went on to graduate. In 2012 she applied for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Her application was granted in 2013 and renewed last year.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protection-from-deportation-revoked-for-former-cause-celebre/2017/05/10/0ba1290e-35ad-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop&utm_term=.23860d6e84cf

[skeeter]

My heart bleeds.

[Sanguine]

Why did she have an outstanding deportation order? 

[SZonian]

Why did she have an outstanding deportation order?

@Sanguine

She had a temporary deferred status.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/feds-strip-protections-from-illegal-immigrant-darling-in-atlanta/

[Sanguine]

@Sanguine

She had a temporary deferred status.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/feds-strip-protections-from-illegal-immigrant-darling-in-atlanta/

I thought the 0bama order would have vacated the deportation order.  Interesting - the illegal order really didn't do much for them?

[SZonian]

I thought the 0bama order would have vacated the deportation order.

FTA:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement stripped Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections from Jessica Colotl, a 28-year-old Mexican national, because she admitted to making a false statement to law enforcement following an arrest in 2010.

ICE confirmed Wednesday that Colotl’s case falls within with government policy not to offer protected status to certain categories of illegal immigrants. Officials have canceled DACA status for about 1,500 people since the start of the program in 2012 because of “criminality or gang affiliation concerns,” agency spokesman Bryan Cox said in a statement.

IOW - Her lack of integrity and ethics got her into this mess.

[Sanguine]

FTA:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement stripped Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections from Jessica Colotl, a 28-year-old Mexican national, because she admitted to making a false statement to law enforcement following an arrest in 2010.

ICE confirmed Wednesday that Colotl’s case falls within with government policy not to offer protected status to certain categories of illegal immigrants. Officials have canceled DACA status for about 1,500 people since the start of the program in 2012 because of “criminality or gang affiliation concerns,” agency spokesman Bryan Cox said in a statement.

IOW - Her lack of integrity and ethics got her into this mess.

Ah ha!  I knew there was something missing.

Thanks!

[SZonian]

Ah ha!  I knew there was something missing.

Thanks!

@Sanguine

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