She was ordered deported and was held for over 35 days at an immigration detention center in Alabama. She later was granted a one year reprieve to finish college. Not many people liked that idea. Primarily, the open borders/blanket amnesty advocates and fellow illegal immigrants thought it a good idea.
She graduated in May 2011. According to one of her supporters, at the time of her 2010 arrest, her intention was to get her degree, then return to Mexico. What happened? In keeping with President Obama’s back-door amnesty actions, she was granted yet a second one-year reprieve, to expire in May of this year. How many people are cognizant of the fact that she applied for and was granted another one year stay, until May of next year?
What is really frustrating about all this is the blatant hypocrisy. Colotl says she loves America and America’s legal system and wants to become a lawyer. Questions are legion in this case.
* If she loves the legal system, why did she continue to break the law by remaining here once she knew she was here illegally?
* What of Colotl’s expired Mexican Passport and the Mexican Drivers License which she produced the day after her traffic stop? Would not possession of those two documents indicate that she has been back to Mexico since she was originally “brought here by her parents at age 7, 10 or 11?” All three different ages have been used in reporting her story at one time or another. If she did, in fact, go to Mexico to get those documents and return to the U.S., she no longer is the victim of her parent’s choice, but a willful lawbreaker.
* Why does she continue to receive reprieves? When will the deportation order be executed?
* Where did she get the money to pay her in-state tuition? If she had a job, she was willfully breaking the law, as was her employer. Is this the action of someone who loves our legal system?
* Why did the president of KSU get personally involved in her case, pleading her cause and having KSU personnel drive her home from the ICE office?
* Will she have to pay the difference in the out-state tuition and the in-state tuition? She owes it to the taxpayers to do so.
* Why is Pat Head, the Cobb County District Attorney whose job it is to prosecute lawbreakers, looking for legal ways to let her off the hook? He is fighting with Superior Judge Mary Staley, who wants her prosecuted. If the judge is unfamiliar with the method Head used to allow her to easily satisfy the letter of the law, is it not a pretty safe bet that it required extra effort for Head to find it? Why did he do it?
* Why is the sheriff’s office being shut out of this matter? Sheriff Neil Warren, along with his department, has made significant strides in reducing the number of illegal aliens in Cobb County and he is frustrated, along with many others, because this woman is being allowed to make a mockery of our legal system.
* Why is D.A. King, president and founder of the Dustin Inman Society, being ignored? King is a widely recognized authority on immigration law, as well as an avid advocate of enforcement of those laws.
Jessica Colotl has become the national poster child for a major breakdown in immigration law enforcement. She is on the fast track to becoming an immigration lawyer and helping more illegals break the law.
Deporting Colotl would send a strong signal to other illegal immigrants. I would ask, “When are we going to demand that the government enforce the law instead of giving it, and the citizens, lip service?”
Pete Borden is a retired masonry contractor in east Cobb.
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The answer to why she has not been deported is our Kennesaw University president who personally interfered and provided assistance to delay the deportation proceedings in place. Since that time, she has cost Cobb County a trial at which she was found guilty and a costly appeal with trial by jury demanded by this invader, again found guilty.
Thanks Mr. Papp. Now you might want to reconsider the employee who exists to travel to high schools to recruit illegal Hispanic students to attend KSU at taxpayer expense.
If they plan to be in law enforcement, or become a lawyer, then it should be sooner.
BTW, pose your hypothetical question to the parents of Dustin Inman and many others who have been killed by illegal aliens.
What are the odds that they grow up to be your kids pusher or the housebreakers before they ever become the cop and why in the world does it matter? What they are or become should be done in their own country.
Amnesty and special consideration is particularly granted to illegal immigrants who have the capacity to serve this country in the future.
Illegal immigration is an issue in the entire world. No regulation is going to curb it.
The fact of the matter is that we (The United States) provide opportunity to those who don't have it in their country. That will always draw people to our country, both legally and illegally. If you understood the conditions that exist in some of these places then you might do the same thing with your family... Unless you don't care about providing a better life for your family in any way possible.
I have had the privilege to serve with two soldiers who were brought into the country illegally as children. One kneeled beside me and engaged the same target that I was. He got his citizenship while deployed. These men and women are not the enemy. Many of them just want to give back to the country that they've grown to love... Bureaucracy in that process often inhibits their ability to gain citizenship. It's not an easy, nor cheap, path. It's very expensive. Money that people often don't have.
If you stop looking at illegal immigration as a "Them vs Us" scenario then maybe you'll develop some compassion and understanding for WHY they do the things that they do.
An illegal immigrant going to college who says they love America is exactly the kind of illegal immigrant that I want in this country.
Should she do it the legal way? Absolutely.
Is she a villain? I think not.
Nowhere did Borden, or I try to portray Colotl as
a villain. However all your rationalizing does not change the fact that she broke several lawz and has taken money illegally,(she lied to get in-state tuition, which is the same as stealing money.)
There are probably a lot of illegal aliens with stories equally as compelling. Do we make exceptions in the law for them too? for how many do we make exceptions? What do we say to our own children when their quality of education suffers because of these "exceptions?"
How many illagel aliens do you support and have living in your house, eating your food, being covered by your insurance, have written into your will?
when your personal actions match your words, then maybe we have room to talk, Until then, you are wrong to suggest this woman should be given a free pass. And you are wrong to suggest that it is okay to reach into my pocket because you are having a hard time.
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