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> She was a minor when she came over. She was just trying to survive and succeed and the laws made it difficult for her to do so. Her parents brought her in on
by wtbob 12y ago
> She was a minor when she came over. She was just trying to survive and succeed and the laws made it difficult for her to do so.
Her parents brought her in on a tourist visa at 11, which expired when she was 14. She was only here for three years legally; her family could—and should—have returned to Mexico. Mexico is not some third-world hellhole; it's a developed and civilised country (yes, there's drug violence in some parts; it's still one of the nicer countries in the world). It's hardly like they were refugees from the Sudan.
- wooyi 12y agoWe should walk in someone else's shoes first before judging what they could and should do. We have no idea what her personal circumstances were. But whatever her parents did or could do, she had little choice in it as a minor.