SHOCKER: First Illegal Immigrant Appointed To State Office In California
On Wednesday, the first illegal immigrant ever to serve in state office in California was appointed by the California Senate Rules Committee.
Lizbeth Mateo, 33, who attended Santa Clara University Law School in 2016 and passed the California bar last year, will serve on the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee, which advises the California Student Aid Commission on ways to make it easier for students from low-income or underserved communities to attend college.
As Newsweek trumpeted:
In 2010, Mateo also became one of the first undocumented young people to risk deportation by demanding the passage of the DREAM Act, legislation that would grant certain immigrants, including Dreamers, or people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, a path to citizenship. She also played a key role in helping a group of young people now known as the "Dream 9" return to the U.S. after being deported to Mexico.
Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León, who announced the decision, took the opportunity to slam President Trump. He released a statement which read, "While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities, Ms. Mateo is a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country."
Mateo asserted, “While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made.”
In 2014, California was the first state in the U.S. to allow illegal immigrants to practice law in 2014.
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While she is the first illegal alien to hold a state office, she is not the first elevated to public office in California. In 2015, the city council of Huntington Park, California, appointed two illegal aliens to city commissions, causing public outrage. When you owe your office to immigrant activist groups, you can dismiss the wishes of citizens.
California continues to prove beyond any doubt that they put illegal aliens above US citizens.
Sad.
Hey, now that she is a public figure, should be easy for ICE to apprehend her--with or without cooperation from California.
So is this one of those jobs that American Citizens don't want to do ?
How old was she when her parents brought her here?
If she grew up in this country, went to law school here, and has passed the bar exam, she's as much an American as you and me.
She was 14.
No she was born in Mexico and snuck into this country like a thief. Like a thief she took things of value that did not belong to her and that she was not entitled to.
She is not as American as I am. I was born here. She is a Mexican national in the country illegally and should be picked up and deported.
The "birther movement is calling your pedigree into question, you might want to reduce your radar profile.
Let's pretend that you were brought from Russia when you were 14 years old. You've lived in this country for the past 10-15 years. You speak the language. You understand and live by an American set of values. You glory in American cultures.
Now let's deport you back to Russia because you were brought here illegally
She went to LAW school. What do they study in LAW school??? They study the LAWS of the U. S.. They study the U. S. Constitution - that little document that very clearly states that Congress shall make the rules for naturalization, which they did.
When, during her entire time from the age of 14 'til the present, did she comply with the legality of the LAW that she studied in school and apply for residency and naturalization - for both her and her Illegal Alien parents????
Not much of a friggin' lawyer - but, we're talking Cali where only 46% of the classes taking the State Law Exam pass.
Which leads to an interesting question - has she taken the state board and did she pass??? I guarantee you the Cali board and the NM board are way different and I sure wouldn't want to take it, no matter what the reason might be. 46% out of 4,200 graduating students per year??? Jeeezzzzz.
46% of 4200 is 1932. How many other states have higher numbers than that?
Ok....I get it. She might have been able to obtain legal citizenship. Why didn't she pursue it? I don't know and you certainly don't know. There may have been obstacles thrown in her path. We don't know.
Did she pass the bar?
According to the second sentence in the seeded article....
The position she has been appointed to, is an unpaid position with no benefits.
In 2013 she and a group of students with similar statuses went to Mexico with the specific goal of documenting how hard it would be to get back into the USA.
Because of the resulting record from that incident, she has been denied DACA status twice.
The last thing this country needs is educated professionals! Get her out of here!
How educated can she be? She does seem to know what the word illegal means .
Lizbeth Mateo, an attorney and immigrant rights activist, was appointed to an advisory committee that seeks to improve access to college for low-income California students, according to the office of state senate president pro tem Kevin de Leon.
A bit of a tough one for myself at least. Though she has been here for more than half her life, been productive etc., she for whatever reason is here illegally. Not deporting those who have come here under the radar, worked to establish themselves etc., is one thing, but appointing them to public positions ( although it is an advisory position) is a bit of a stretch for me.
Simple solution would be for Congress and the Administration to once and for all come up with a comprehensive immigration policy and address those individuals that are already here. But that would require both effort and political will, both of which are anemic at best these days.
In the meantime, I'd apply for citizenship ( rather than waiting for the above two branches to provide a path) if Ms. Mateo has not done so already.
Like I said, tough one.
At least you're looking at the problem logically and not emotionally
If you are Trump and you desperately need to retain your core supporters, you aren't going to do anything to make life easy for illegals.
Why would any sane American citizen even want to consider making life easier for a group that does not respect this country or it's laws? I for one would like to see life for illegally become impossibly hard here.
There are way many natural born citizens that do not respect our laws. The prisons are full of them.
. She violated our laws from the first day she arrived here. She constantly Violated them since. As you said there are natural born citizens that don't respect our laws and are in prison. What makes her different that she should be rewarded and not in prison or back in Mexico?
Well there's the problem. If she was an attorney from Russia the right would love her. Jr. sure seems to like them.
As a member of the Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee, Mateo will advise the California Student Aid Commission to help low-income and marginalized people attend college.
The position is not paid!
Big deal, the FLOTUS is an illegal alien too.