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Devastated Illegal with 4.0 GPA Unable to Attend UC Berkeley
contracostatimes.com — Although the 17-year-old Gladys Castro carries a 4.09 grade-point average and has been accepted to the university, she cannot apply for government loans because she's an illegal immigrant and doesn't have a Social Security number. When she was 8 years old, her family fled the crime and violence of their hometown in Jalisco, Mexico.
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+2270 diggs +2403 / -133 drhex31
on 05/17/2010 i would suggest you work on getting legal.
Thread / Reply+1447 diggs +1556 / -109 SandyLanders
on 05/17/2010 She is an illegal immigrant and needs to get on with becoming a legal immigrant. I suspect her parents are still here illegally also? Damn it, what part of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT do these people not understand? No one is against LEGAL immigration.
Thread / Reply+1159 diggs +1235 / -76 Jamby
on 05/17/2010 There's a university or two in Mexico she could attend. I know, I lived there for over a year. Oh, and by the way, she could also enroll in a Mexican university, and attend a U.S. university as an exchange student. Yes, she is not getting grants and loans, but why should she? Will Mexico subsidize my education if I want to attend a school there, after moving there illegally? Of course not.
Thread / Reply+865 diggs +967 / -102 LouisCipher777
on 05/17/2010 cry more.

then, when she wipes the tears away, she should get in line to become a legal immigrant.

would americans be treated any better if they snuck into mexico? or any other country for that matter?
Thread / Reply+766 diggs +887 / -121 Ygeoff421
on 05/17/2010 Maybe she could be thankful she got a FREE education up to this point.
Give her a choice...... A) Move back to her native country or B) pay back the 100,000 she cost tax payers.




Thread / Reply+665 diggs +756 / -91 theavenger3
on 05/18/2010 The entitlement attitude among illegals is absurd.

I'll admit that if I were born in Mexico, I'd try to come here illegally. However, if I got caught, I wouldn't complain.

I wouldn't bitch and moan after getting a FREE education that I can't get even more FREE grants or loans. I'd realize that loan money is reserved for actual citizens.

Things have gone far enough, it's time to draw the line and refuse to permit any more entitlements for illegals.
Thread / Reply+510 diggs +590 / -80 XopherMV
on 05/18/2010 She is a citizen of Mexico. There is absolutely no reason why the US should pay for the education of the citizens of another country. The fact that she's freeloaded this long is no reason for us to continue to fund her education.
Thread / Reply+411 diggs +439 / -28 jpete71chevmal
on 05/18/2010 It's funny because the Mexican government will pay residents to go to college in the US if they agree to go back to Mexico and work for two years.

I knew a girl that became a doctor, went back and did her time, then came back. She even got a job in the state Department of Health.

It can be done LEGALLY.
Thread / Reply+363 diggs +424 / -61 austroLogi
on 05/17/2010 I'm sorry our social services can't even handle us let alone the rest of the world. I already work 25% of my year for all these ***** programs i rather not work half the year for them.
Thread / Reply+350 diggs +372 / -22 Nodaki
on 05/18/2010 Fast Track Solution:

1. Hang out at bar or check out XYZ online dating service.
2. Find pathetic loser.
3. Marry pathetic loser.
4. Go to school, string him along for 5 years.
5. Graduate.
6. Ditch his ass.

Doesn't anyone think outside the box except for Russian/Filipino girls?
Thread / Reply+336 diggs +423 / -87 DisruptionFL
on 05/18/2010 Boo hoo, get legal.
Thread / Reply+325 diggs +375 / -50 Ascus
on 05/18/2010 4.0 student that does not understand the word "Illegal"
Thread / Reply+315 diggs +356 / -41 UnpossibIe
on 05/18/2010 Sorry, no sympathies from me. My family and I are immigrants, we came here legally, went through the lengthy paperwork and fees and became citizens. This girl and her family just want a free ride and want to feed off people's sympathies.
Thread / Reply+297 diggs +335 / -38 morpheusvsneo
on 05/18/2010 a couple things stuck out for me in this article as an atheist libertarian on digg.

"California has already dumped $100,000 in free education (on her),"

WTF?!?!? 100 grand for a K-12 education?!!you can go to a prep school with that kind of money instead of a ***** public school.

"An evangelical Christian, Castro would ask the campus Christian club to pray for her situation, the request couched in vague terms so as not to let on about her status. "

lol, fail.

"Although the 17-year-old Kaiser High School senior carries a 4.09 grade-point average and has been accepted to the university, she cannot apply for government loans because she's an illegal immigrant and doesn't have a Social Security number...In the meantime, she plans to attend Riverside Community College in the summer and fall while she figures out how to pay for Berkeley."

Wait, wtf? so this whole article is about how she can't pay to go a top school so she expects a free ride or something?! or she wants other tax payers to subsidize her education? ***** that.
Thread / Reply+268 diggs +300 / -32 ThePartyStar
on 05/17/2010 they don't get the part where illegal = crime.
Thread / Reply+224 diggs +257 / -33 ByteMeAHole
on 05/18/2010 So, her parents had 9 years to file the paper work to become legal immigrants, and that was too much of a bother for them. Why should I care when they didn't?
Thread / Reply+196 diggs +222 / -26 drhex31
on 05/17/2010 it is easier then you might think. do not mistake that i am saying it is cheap. it is not. been though it already took 5 years but it is done.
Thread +195 diggs +210 / -15 jjason1985
on 05/18/2010 She is obviously smart enough to get legal citizenship.
Thread / Reply+182 diggs +191 / -9 Akairenn
on 05/18/2010 "would americans be treated any better if they snuck into mexico?"

Worse.

FAR worse.

Mexico's immigration laws make Arizona look like the state is throwing a party for incoming illegals.
Thread / Reply+159 diggs +177 / -18 Ygeoff421
on 05/17/2010 @drhex31, props to you for sticking it out and doing it the right way!
Thread +145 diggs +219 / -74 beforen0w
on 05/17/2010 I feel bad because it isn't her fault that she's not legal. I know a few people I graduated high school with who go to Cal & they're illegal also. It's possible, like the article said, with scholarships. She'll find a way, and hopefully will take the necessary steps to become legal
Thread / Reply+143 diggs +170 / -27 kelmaster1
on 05/18/2010 It's an amazingly lax system where an illegal immigrant not part of the tax system can attend a public school, yet somehow people still bitch about it.
Thread / Reply+135 diggs +144 / -9 LeftIsCorrupt
on 05/18/2010 In America, an illegal immigrant has received a free education all the way through High School and is upset that she cannot get Government grants to offset the cost of College.


Meanwhile, Let’s take a look at Mexico’s immigration laws:

According to Reglamento de la Ley General Poblacion—Mexico’s population and immigration law passed in 2000—the federal, local, and municipal police must work with federal immigration authorities to arrest illegal immigrants.

Article 67 says “Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country before attending to any issues.”

Illegal immigration is a felony in Mexico, and if convicted, an illegal immigrant can be sent to prison for up to two years. But that’s not all. Deported immigrants who try to return to Mexico can actually be punished with a 10 year prison sentence, and those who violate their Visa can be thrown in prison for up to six years. Also, any Mexican citizen who helps an illegal immigrant could face criminal charges.

Other key points you should know about Mexico’s immigration laws:

- Foreigners who are considered a threat to economic or national interests can be deported.

- Those foreigners who don’t have the “necessary funds for their sustenance” may be deported.

- Foreigners can’t be a burden to taxpayers, so there is no welfare, food stamps, healthcare, or other government assistance.

- Foreigners may not protest or have any demonstrations. This can lead to deportation.

- Citizenship is granted on a basis “according to (the immigrant’s) possibilities of contributing to national progress.”

- Naturalized Mexicans (those granted citizenship by means other than birth) may not hold dual citizenship and can’t run for most government posts.


The more you know.....
Thread / Reply+129 diggs +155 / -26 Rhawk187
on 05/18/2010 This is the type of person that should be put on the fast-track to citizenship. I usually consider illegals criminals, but she obviously didn't enter the country illegally under her own volition so I don't think many would have a problem with her getting a temporary school visa while she works on getting citizenship.

Also, if her marks are so high, she may not get the selection of schools she wants, but I'm sure she could get a full scholarship somewhere.
Thread +128 diggs +153 / -25 Ygeoff421
on 05/17/2010 It would have benefited this country more if we didn't have to pay for her education leading up to college. There are plenty of other smart, legal citizens that will be denied college for one reason or another, why is she so special? Is she the only student in America with a 4.0?
Thread +124 diggs +153 / -29 sleeplesson
on 05/18/2010 Well if she came in with her family at 8 and she's now 17. That's almost 10 years. So they chose not to try to go the proper route and now it's biting them in the ass.
Thread +123 diggs +174 / -51 Nodaki
on 05/18/2010 This submission is toxic troll fodder.
Thread / Reply+119 diggs +132 / -13 kelmaster1
on 05/18/2010 I'm glad most people are seeing through this BS.
Thread / Reply+112 diggs +139 / -27 Kruse
on 05/18/2010 tough *****?
Thread / Reply+112 diggs +141 / -29 morgino
on 05/18/2010 We are supposed to feel sorry for her because we wont give her anymore free money?
Thread / Reply+107 diggs +158 / -51 mvosatka
on 05/18/2010 I am assuming she paid no taxes growing up here, as well as her parents, so why does she expect anything from the government? I pay taxes and still don't expect anything from the government....plus she already got free education up to this point...
Thread / Reply+106 diggs +121 / -15 ileftfark
on 05/18/2010 I'll absolve the girl of any wrongdoing, as she was brought here as an 8-year old child. And I don't see an issue with the government refusing a loan to someone living here illegally. The "injustice" of the situation rests squarely on the shoulders of her parents. According to the article, the left Jalisco for some place safer, which I can understand. They chose to enter a country illegally, and without a SS or Green Card, I'd imagine that they haven't contributed anything other than illegal labor to shady employers. The girl seems bright, and hopefully there's some kind of resolution that can be reached (ideally, with her becoming a citizen), but the only people at fault for this situation are her parents.

Unrelated to the above, the GPA system in high schools is totally *****. Most of the kids in my honors classes graduated with a 4.5+ due to weighted programs and schools doing whatever they can to 'improve scores' each year. The number has lost the little meaning it had left.
Thread / Reply+93 diggs +106 / -13 kelmaster1
on 05/18/2010 Thank you. If you want to see difficult immigration laws check out Switzerland. American immigration laws are very lax (comparatively). I'm tired of all the whining and bitching, it's doable.
Thread / Reply+89 diggs +112 / -23 Arixx
on 05/18/2010 This is the difference between Reddit and Digg. Even though I love reading Reddit for the off-beat bull, they can't understand the simple fact of the laws.

Digg: It's a law, do it the right way and we don't have a problem. Would your homeland allow us to do the same?

Reddit: RACIST!

That is all.
Thread / Reply+88 diggs +121 / -33 nogahide
on 05/18/2010 LOL, this really backfired on the poster...no one has any sympathy for this girl. Use your 4point gpa to figure out a way to get legal..then the USA is your oyster.
Thread / Reply+83 diggs +103 / -20 deathsquadx
on 05/18/2010 Please tell me you're joking. She's an illegal immigrant! She doesn't deserve loan money from a government she is not a citizen of.
Thread / Reply+82 diggs +112 / -30 JFetch
on 05/18/2010 1. She's 17. She can't become legal.
2. She doesn't have a choice in whether she's here legally or not. She had to go where her parents took her.
3. She's been here almost a decade going to school here.
Thread / Reply+80 diggs +93 / -13 Ygeoff421
on 05/17/2010 You are wrong. Also, why would we let unskilled workers freely enter? My aunt just became a legal citizen and it was a lot of work to get everything in order, you should hear her talk about the illegals after all she went though to get here.

It ain't easy, nor should it be!
Thread / Reply+79 diggs +103 / -24 Ygeoff421
on 05/18/2010 @locamama, "I'm assuming that you either are skilled or had a relative in this country" He better be skilled or else why let them immigrate?

So you support letting unskilled, uneducated, undocumented people into this country, right? What about health screening, learning the constitution, being able to communicate in primary language of the country you are moving too?

Her parents did something wrong and the child gets the short end of the stick, oh wait no she didn't she got a FREE education thanks to American tax payers..... how about a ***** thank you!
Thread +79 diggs +100 / -21 drhex31
on 05/18/2010 illegal:
forbidden by law or statute.

criminal: (the most relevant to this discussion)
guilty of crime.

crime:
A crime is a wrongdoing classified by the state or Congress as a felony or misdemeanor.

A crime is an offense against a public law.

thus your argument is incorrect. parking violation does make you a criminal, being and illegal immigrant does make you a criminal.

if you do not pay your parking fine you could go to jail.


Thread +78 diggs +95 / -17 BlackJackJester
on 05/18/2010 Educational Visa - get one
Thread +74 diggs +87 / -13 ASSASSYN360
on 05/18/2010 She can't until she is 18 years old.
Thread / Reply+74 diggs +81 / -7 Nodaki
on 05/18/2010 No, try Canada sometime. Unless your spouse is Canadian or you have an advanced degree it is very difficult.
Thread / Reply+73 diggs +84 / -11 Ygeoff421
on 05/18/2010 Yeah not sure how that works, here is a free education, "but I don't get free/discounted college too?" WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

She needs to blame her parents for bringing her here illegally, not the country that gave her a free education!
Thread +67 diggs +79 / -12 CySailor
on 05/18/2010 Here's how to do it: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb ...

She was in ROTC. All she needs to do to both become a citizen and pay for college is join the military. That is how I paid for my college, it works.
Thread +67 diggs +90 / -23 jarjarwang
on 05/18/2010 Some people don't even live in America at all... crazy to think about.
Thread / Reply+65 diggs +67 / -2 WiseGuy1020
on 05/18/2010 Standard women's MO really.
Thread +64 diggs +72 / -8 Ascus
on 05/18/2010 You forgot, have anchor baby.
Thread / Reply+64 diggs +103 / -39 wateryouth
on 05/18/2010 Thats great.

In the mean time, her parents are breaking the law, and stealing from tax payers, while NOT paying any taxes.

Awesome!
Thread +62 diggs +80 / -18 wastelander
on 05/18/2010 I don't get it.
So its not OK to enter the country illegally, but once here they should have equal access to free education, health-care, social programs, etc.
If you want to advocate open borders, then go ahead do it, and be honest about it.
Otherwise, if illegal immigration is a crime that it makes absolutely no sense build all sorts of programs to support illegible immigrants. In fact, quite the opposite, everything should be done to make it difficult for them to get away with it.
Want you kids in school? Fine, back to Mexico.
Don't enroll your kids in school--that's against the law. Back to Mexico.
Need health care. Fine, once your medically stable, back to Mexico (with the bill).
But that's so cruel! Fine, don't come here illegally. Stay in Mexico.
Oh, also, you will be billed for the deportation costs.
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