Congrats to her for making it in the US!<p>However, it would have been exceptionally easy to get the required visas. Once she was accepted into university, she can apply for an F student visa. It's practically guaranteed for this visa to be granted -- there's no limit to the number of admitted foreign students in the US.<p>Then, with good grades and an acceptance to Goldman Sachs (which she got), she would have had little trouble getting a work visa. I know plenty of people who have done that.<p>It's not necessary to go through the 10+ year process to become a <i>citizen</i> in order to be able to study and work in the US. And getting the visas would have been far less stressful and allowed her to travel to see family in Mexico.
She committed identity theft or fraud and this should be celebrated? "She bought fake papers."<p>That's a crime.<p>How is she get SEC licenses as someone who has admitted to fraud? Why would Goldman not catch her fraud during their due diligence when hiring her? She's being trusted with financial instruments as someone with a flagrant disregard for the law?<p>She should be deported. If she's any good, she can trade derivatives on Goldman's Mexico City desk.<p>For those here that would defend her -- are you suggesting we only follow laws we agree with?
An undocumented immigrant? So she was legally in the country, but with paperwork incomplete? Or a refugee?<p>Oh no, they mean illegal immigrant - in this case, someone who violated the law to make more money. Got it.<p>Every time I see the term "undocumented immigrant" I am horrified at how easily people will thoughtlessly toss away the rule of law to serve their own self-indulgent empathy.<p>Mexico today has more GDP/capita than New Zealand did in 1990. There's no justification for encouraging the human trafficking and dangerous cross-desert trips (often ending in death or rape or robbery) this way. Immigration should be orderly and safe.<p>If someone wants everybody on Earth to have free access to America, they should campaign to make that the law, and face the real consequences. This "let it be illegal but keep the border-jumpers as our empathy pets" stuff is self-indulgent and self-defeating on so many levels. Ugh.