The DREAM Act was designed for people exactly like this university graduate. We must work to get it passed. We need these people living here, legally. - - Donna Poisl
Facing possible deportation, she turns to bill that would provide a path to citizenship
By MELISSA LUDWIG, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
SAN ANTONIO — In elementary school, Benita Veliz dreaded substitute teachers. Her classmates would act up and the sub would threaten to call the principal, a prospect so upsetting to Veliz that her regular teacher began placing her in a colleague’s classroom on days the teacher could not make it to class.
Imagine how Veliz, now 23, reacted this January when she was thrown into jail after a traffic stop because she is an unauthorized immigrant.
“To go from that to being in jail was surreal,” Veliz said.
Her parents brought her across the border when she was 8 years old. She worked doggedly in school, graduating valedictorian of her class at Jefferson High School in 2002 and later from St. Mary’s University. She works as a secretary for a church and dreams of going to law school.
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