<p>In order for a new driver to get a license in GA, they first have to get a learners permit. Here’s what is necessary for that. Anyone surprised this girl didn’t get one??
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<p>Passing the bar seems out of the question in her situation. A friend’s child was informed of an unpaid medical bill sent for collection in the child’s name. A parent, with legal (not to mention moral) responsibility for medical bills not only failed to pay the bill (a relatively small amount) but did not tell the child. Since child was over 18, bill was in his/her name. Until this is cleared, child is not eligible to take the bar. Surely they would discover illegal status in this case.</p>
<p>Two interesting updates:
Jessica Colotl is requesting a jury trial for her traffic citations [Colotl</a> requests jury trial on traffic citations | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/colotl-requests-jury-trial-540836.html]Colotl”>http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/colotl-requests-jury-trial-540836.html)</p>
<p>In a related story, Harvard rising sophomore Eric Balderas, another illegal immigrant brought to the US at 4 yrs of age, was detained by immigration authorities in San Antonio, Tx. He had apparently misplaced/lost his Mexican passport and tried to board with his Harvard ID and a Mexican consulate card . Doesn’t say why he had something from the consulate, unless it was because he lost his passport. The article says he was broght to the US to escape a domestic violence situation.</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Sophomore Faces Deportation to Mexico | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2010/6/11/balderas-according-immigration-eric/]Harvard”>http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2010/6/11/balderas-according-immigration-eric/)</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> student says he faces deportation from US | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/harvard-student-says-he-547350.html]Harvard”>http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/harvard-student-says-he-547350.html)</p>
<p>I am not on a witch hunt for that young lady. Many practicing attorneys, models citizens, etc have some stupid infractions on their licenses or records from when they were young. As our esteemed former POTUS said, " When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid." Many have such issues without so much at stake as deportations, in fact, most do. Somehow most of such kids straighten out the stuff and go on with their lives. </p>
<p>The illegal immigration part is a hot issue now. Being in the limelight, we’ll see how a jury looks at her traffic citations. I’m sure it is her attorney advising her. For many kids this is not an issue that results in a huge penalty if it is a first offense. I tell you this from personal experience with many kids I know.</p>
<p>I agree with you, cptofthehouse. A big difference between these two storeis, aside from the location and schools involved, is that Eric didn’t lie to authorities and has no charges pending against him. Jessica, on the other hand, is facing possible felony charges. I feel badly for both of these kids, but, especially for a kid attending a public school (Jessica) should state funds be used to educate non-residents? All very sticky issues.</p>
<p>I don’t think state funds or federal funds be used to educate illegal non residents but they are. All the way through high school they are. In college, too, if we want to get technical, since most colleges charge less than what it really costs per student, and most colleges get federal money to defray the cost and that is outside of student grants and loan subsidies. Here in NY, anyone who can prove s/he was here for 3 years, gets state rates. Many state colleges don’t check very thoroughly for residence qualifications. I know our local colleges don’t. So such funds are being used. </p>
<p>However in Jessica’s case, this appears to be a blatant misuse of funds, and breaking of rules. I would be willing to bet that the college app forms were completed with lies. That is the big difference. If she had completed them honestly, she would have likely been charged the OOS rate. Most colleges won’t touch the illegal alien issue so it is doubtful she had to lie about that, but she clearly was not a legal GA resident which she had to say she was in order to get the in state rate.</p>
<p>IIRC, the state changed its policy (or maybe the verbiage in the Board of Regents policy/rules) to clarify in-state/OOS criteria (see post # 55) the year after she applied. Here’s an interesting column from the Atlanta paper discussing the pros/cons of extending college benefits to illegals [Pro</a> & Con: Should states extend college benefits to illegal immigrants? | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/opinion/pro-con-should-states-536097.html]Pro”>http://www.ajc.com/opinion/pro-con-should-states-536097.html)</p>
<p>This seems to be turning into a witch hunt for DA King and the CC Sheriff…now they’re going after the GA university system! The DA has taken the stance that it is both illegal and IMMORAL for illegal aliens to even be admitted to a public school, despite ICE’s interpretation to the contrary and the lack of such a prohibition in GA state statutes…</p>
<p>[Georgia’s</a> immigration controversy reaches attorney general | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/georgias-immigration-controversy-reaches-546475.html]Georgia’s”>http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/georgias-immigration-controversy-reaches-546475.html)</p>
<p>That D.A. King is a scary guy-- has a fringe group (almost sounds militia-like) that are very outspoken about immigration issues. He used to have some group called “The American Resistance Foundation” and now calls his group “The Dustin Inman Society”, named after a teenager who was killed in an auto accident 10 yrs ago by a car driven by an illegal alien.</p>
<p>I think the request to look into the policies and procedures of the Board of Regents will be done, but most will distance themselves from this wing nut.</p>
<p>Here’s what the Board of Regents is doing: <a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-regents-to-discuss-543532.html?cxntlid=daylf_artr[/url]”>http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-regents-to-discuss-543532.html?cxntlid=daylf_artr</a></p>
<p>jym, gotta love the author of the “no” in your link who apparently doesn’t bother to do his homework. As of today, KSU is still listed on the NACAC website as having spots open for freshmen (and transfers) for next fall, as well as housing and FA - the rare trifecta at this point! Who are these unidentified US students who are having their “slots taken” by illegals?!</p>
<p>[Space</a> Availability Survey Results 2010](<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Research/SpaceAvailabiltySurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx]Space”>http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Research/SpaceAvailabiltySurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx)</p>
<p>Yup, sk8rmom. KSU is not one of GAs flagship schools that students are beating the doors down to attend.</p>
<p>good, i hope she gets deported.</p>
<p>thank god we have undocumented humanpersons willing to come to the usa from messico to help americans do the work that we are so obviously incapable of! had it not been for this innocent young woman, who knows what kind of ne’er-do-well american citizen kid might have occupied those classroom seats. maybe one not becoming a (hats off) HONOR STUDENT, benefitting from preferential instate tuition, or maybe sooner or later qualifying for at least SOME kind of student loan or grant? but of course, and unfortunately too late, there are growing legions of taxpayer/parent/citizen/voters who are beginning to see the huge social and financial cost we will be paying, just for getting our lawns mowed for $10 back in the good old 1980s. those gardeners and lettuce-pickers had kids, and they have no intention of staying in the family “business”. so does it really matter, sending them to the “back of the line” for legal citizenship, when they are here to stay anyway - after having immigrated without so much as sending Americans a thankyou note???</p>
<p>And now our great state of GA is considering deporting a Honduran gentleman (married to a US citizen) after he was arrested for… wait for it… fishing without a license.</p>
<p>[Man</a> fishing without a license now facing deportation | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/news/man-fishing-without-a-546214.html]Man”>http://www.ajc.com/news/man-fishing-without-a-546214.html)</p>
<p>Well, if they are caught without the proper paper work and illegally here, that is the risk they take. There are procedures that you have to follow when you want to stay here legally even marrying a US citizen. A friend of mine’s son recently married a Mexican woman, and they have had to toe the line so that she is legally here. A pain in the neck but they are doing it. Why should those who take cuts from the process get to benefit? When you break the law, you are facing the maximum penalty for it. Deportation is a fair consequence for being here illegally. That headline is inflammatory in that the man fishing without a license is NOT being deported for the fishing issue. If a legal citizen were caught doing that, he would have to take the consequences of the legal recourse for it. This man was caught being here illegally while fishing without a license, and the illegal alien part is what is getting him deported.</p>
<p>My H is an avid hunter and fisherman, and has been stopped fairly often and asked to produce his licenses. He expects this to happen and would expect to be cited if he had not complied. This is not unusual at all. It is very important that fishermen pay a license fee, as those fees are a major source of funds for wildlife maintenance and conservation, and those who benefit should shoulder a portion of the cost.</p>
<p>There appears to be a mass exodus from Arizona of illegals now that the climate there is getting ugly. Most will probably move on to California or Texas. We’ll see if Arizona goes down the tubes from this loss. If so, the laws making it tougher for illegals to live there will be rescinded very quickly from the outcry. I really doubt that this would happen, however. </p>
<p>It’s not that every single illegal immigrant here is taking the slot of some citizen that is at stake. It’s that the immigration laws are being enforced at such a wimpy pace that it isn’t worth the expense and trouble to enter here legally. Who the heck is going to go through those procedures when the chances of getting caught are so small.</p>
<p>Jessica could have entered the country legally with a student visa. She would have had to return to her country of origin and then with the school acceptance letter, re entered with her student visa. She would not have gotten state rate tuition as a international student, but she would have legal documentation. As a child, she was under her parents care, and had little choice as to how to do this. But now she is an adult. Which brings up the question of what is happening to the rest of her family? Why aren’t they facing deportation too? So they caught one, but can’t check the status of the others? No wonder Arizona passed those measures.</p>
<p>The fisherman also could have been legal. As many who marry Americans and go through the procedure. Why bother to do so, if it means no consequences?</p>
<p>The title of that article about the fisherman facing deportation reminds me of the traveling sideshows at carnivals. My kids went into one labelled “6 ft tall man-eating chicken”. It was a 6 ft tall man------ eating chicken :)</p>
<p>Government Sanctioned Racial Profiling Runs Amok in GA! How’s that for a headline? What the heck happens when those “brown” people who are here legally, but may not have a driver’s license or other govt-issued ID in their pockets, get stopped for spitting on the sidewalk or, God forbid, licking ice cream cones in a counter-clockwise manner? Hauled off to jail I guess…meanwhile, ICE seems to be getting fed up with this nonsense as they have real criminals and legitimate threats to our security to find and detain.</p>
<p>Incidentally, it was not too many years ago that ICE ran an enforcement campaign that rounded up quite a few immigrant farm workers in GA. The state legislature had a fit about it as the farmers needed those people in order to bring their crops to market…and ICE backed down. So now that there MAY be some “real” Americans that MAY want to do that back-breaking work or maybe just because the state doesn’t want to spend one thin dime on providing public education for their children, they have conveniently forgotten they ever wanted, and used, them in the first place. Yes, it’s wrong to fish or drive without a license, but it’s truly immoral to use and discard human beings for profit.</p>
<p>This is hardly limited just to GA. And per the article there were several people fishing when the Dept of Natural Resources officer asked them for their fishing licenses. This gentleman walked away and back up to his car. They asked him if he was fishing. He said no. They asked him to open his car trunk which contained fishing gear and a dead fish. He couldnt produce any calid GA identification. Hope he wasn’t driving that car.</p>
<p>Not defending what happened. The fact that it made the news in GA speaks to the thoughts about the incident.</p>
<p>How come not a soul has commented about the Harvard student who got detained (see post # 83)?</p>