If leading Democratic leaders in the United States — including President Obama and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton — do not believe in enforcing immigration laws, how are we to expect ordinary people to obey these laws? Apparently emboldened by the liberals’ disinterest in immigration enforcement, a Texas high school valedictorian spoke out against the laws of the United States and Donald Trump as she gave her graduation speech last Friday.
A North Texas high school valedictorian gave quite a different kind of commencement speech at a graduation ceremony on Friday. She announced she was in the United States illegally, blamed the U.S. immigration system for her illegal status, and even took a few veiled swipes at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.
McKinney Boyd High School valedictorian Larissa Martinez also mentioned she was Yale University bound when she stood before a packed auditorium and declared: “I am one of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows of the United States.”Eleven million is the often quoted and questioned U.S. government statistic of illegal immigrants living in the United States. Martinez stated that sharing this information about her status was part of one of her life struggles. “After all of these years, I have finally mustered up the courage to stand before you and share a struggle I’ve had to deal with each and every day.”
Martinez later told Dallas’ WFAA 8 in an interview that her Ivy League college education is funded on a full-ride scholarship. She hopes to go to med school.
During her speech, Martinez also said she decided to make her immigration status, which she again referred to as “undocumented,” a focal point of her valedictorian speech because of the “great divide of opinion on the topic of immigration in America.”She asserted: “We are here without official documentation because the U.S. immigration system is broken and it has forced many families to live in fear.”Following her declaration, she said: “Undocumented immigrants are people too.”Martinez became a little emotional. Attendees and graduates of the McKinney Independent School District erupted into hoots, hollers and thunderous applause.
Although she never mentioned billionaire real estate mogul and presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump by name, Martinez stated: “The most important part of the debate and is often overlooked is that immigrants, undocumented or otherwise, are people too. People with dreams, aspirations, hopes and loved ones. People like me. People who have become a part of the American society and way of life and who yearn to help make ‘America great again’ without the construction of a wall built on hatred and prejudice.”
Martinez admitted to WFAA 8 that she purposefully alluded to Trump in her speech. “I didn’t know if people would pick up on that, but I knew, and that made me feel better so,” she stated.
Many people feel sympathy for children who were brought to the United States illegally by their parents, as they played no part in this decision. But it is hard for even the most sympathetic of law-abiding Americans to empathize with a young person who rails against the country that has provided her with so much.
Source: Breitbart
She needs to do it legally. There is nothing that I haven’t said in regards to her getting educated LEGALLY
Being here illegal when we have so many who do not get chances like she does because of what ever govt reasons give Honest Hard Working Americans because they give to those who cant obtain papers making them legal.
If I have to prove I am a US citizen while attending a community college so should EVERYONE ELSE!! I pay taxes through VALID EMPLOYMENT I TURN IN TO IRS, the school looks at my income. There for LAW NEEDS TO APPLY TO EVERYONE
My newest comment on this because people don’t seem or care what we are mad about. I go to college. I HAVE TO PROVE I AM A US CITIZEN AND TURN IN MY TAX INFORMATION EACH YEAR!! Sometimes I get audited and have to ALWAYS PROVE I AM A LEGAL US CITIZEN. Name of my College is East Central in Union Mo. I am 32. If I have to do all this EVERY SEMESTER. AND VERIFY I AM LEGAL— SO SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE!!
Pack her up and send her to Tijuana U for her scholarship. Give her scholarship to the child of a hard working citizen who can’t afford to send them to school because our tax money are going to these law breakers.
Please if you are not happy and you think you are so entitled to all you see, go home. To where you and your family are from. My husband is from Britain, he spent about 4 and 1/2 years and 15 thousand dollars to become a LEGAL UNCONDITIONAL PERMANENT RESIDENT! No he is not made of money but he would get in line about 4:30 in the morning day after day to get to see an INS officer. If you want to be here then you need to put in the work and the effort the same as others who want to be here. YOU cannot come here without effort and expect the US to bow down to you and present you with all you think you are entitled to. This country offers opportunity. If you want to be here then work for it and go about the proper channels. You can not come here illegally and expect to be treated like a princess. You are a disgrace to all those who truly want to be here and try the correct way to be here.
Illegal look it up in the dictionary. Then shut up and go back where your came from. If you want to come here do it legally.
I don’t care what grades you have you want free college do a 4 year service to the Military than I’m my eyes you have earned the GI Bill
Why is a illegal immigrant here in this country at all…Its because obama wont enforce our laws…. so wrong….. And she should not be on TV or the internet.. they are just prompting hate… just plain wrong
the stupid !!