Larissa Martinez told classmates at McKinney Boyd High School that she was one of the 11million undocumented citizens living in the United States after she fled her abusive and alcoholic father in Mexico.
The 18-year-old, who has been offered a full scholarship to Yale, said she decided against giving her classmates the 'traditional Hallmark version' of the speech and instead opted for the truth.
The teenager told the crowd of thousands: 'Immigrants, undocumented or otherwise, are people too'.
'We are here without documentation because the US immigration system is broken and forces many families to live in fear.'
She also used the speech to slam Donald Trump's plans to build a wall based on 'hate and prejudice'.
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Broken? Says you. Follow the law criminal.
Citizens arrest right on the stage...
did they deport her yet?
The wall is to keep out illegals. Period. If you don't have papers or legal permission, you don't have the right to be here.
true 1:16pm and her scholarship should be cancelled and given to an american born legal citizen.
I have an abusive and alcoholic father too, I haven't fled this country. Moved away, yes. That is no reason to be here illegally. Sorry.
Obama will give her a pass and invite her family.
Obama will give her a pass and invite her family.
She should have immediately been arrested, then her and her family should be forced to pay back the tax payers. How sad is it that we have to fund and support illegal thugs like that.
Now how do you like that with her "In your face speech!!"
Good for her, Trump could learn a lesson from this gifted young lady about dignity, honesty, integrity and bravery as he possesses none of those qualities.
I knew this was coming. Liberals will be sorry when their grand kids get their college grants taken from them by illegal immigrants. It is going to be truly sad for college students in the future.
Texas allows this crap. I am beginning to be concerned about Texas.
Maybe the legal American kids should have studied just a bit harder. Then they could have gotten the awards and full scholarships.
So basically, she publicly admitted she's a criminal. Great. Since when did be a criminal usurp being a law abiding citizen. Really getting fed up with this new norm of lawlessness in this country. Guess we can't hold anyone accountable if a candidate for POTUS is a criminal being let to walk among us, can we?
Ironic that this girl fled what Donald is trying to keep out. If her father moved here, would she go back to Mexico? I doubt it.
Phoney!
The reasons for crossing the border are always for a better life than what's had in the home country. The legality is the issue, not the reason for coming over.
2:09.....Honesty and integrity?
That's what she is demostrating?
Try living illegally in ANY other country, sending a child to a local school, and then ANNOUNCING at your graduation that you are not even supposed to be there and then blame the host country (the one you've lied to and broken it's laws) for MAKING you come there and be a criminal.
You wouldn't make it out of the parking lot before their version of the police showed up. And the people who aided you would be going to jail THAT NIGHT.
ONLY in America can an illegal criminal tell us that not only are they here, but they ain't going anywhere and our laws mean nothing to them.
She gets a full ride? She should get some jail time.
Lying, cheating, and stealing. With a dose of criminality.
Spin it anyway you like, but thats the bottom line, the lowdown, the truth, the skinny, and the final word.
Take the scholarship away and deport her. She should be going to the University of JAIL.
Whites are minority in Texas
Keep her and send a B'More thug to Mexico as an exchange. Seems fair to me.
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