Immigration Reality: A Dream Act Story: Jury finds Kennesaw State student Colotl guilty on one of two charges

This is the story of a "Dream Act kid." Ms. Colotl is a young Mexican woman and Georgia college senior who was brought to the U.S. by her parents, without a visa, when she was a child. She calls herself "an American without papers," as she has lived in the U.S. virtually all her life and wants to stay.

After her arrest, by campus police, for driving without a license, she was held in deportation facilities for 37 days. The minimum sentence for her misdemeanor is 48 hours in jail. She has already spent 45.5 hours there. Her deportation has been deferred for one year so that she can complete college. If the Dream Act is passed in the lame duck Congress in the coming month, she will be able to stay in the U.S.

Jury finds Kennesaw State student Colotl guilty on one of two charges | ajc.com: "A Kennesaw State University student whose arrest and near deportation prompted a statewide debate about illegal immigration may be headed back to jail, if only for a few hours." Nov. 11, 2010, Atlantic Journal-Constitution