On Friday she graduated with honors from a high school outside of Richmond. By June 20 she must be back in Guatemala, which she left at age 4, or face deportation. Meet Heydi Mejia.
Photo by Katherine Frey (The Washington Post)
each year approximately 65k undocumented students graduate from high school and most cannot pursue post secondary education because immigration is a pile of shit.
Deporting young brown women back to Guatemala is throwing them to the wolves. The fact that there is a new merit based system where some would be allowed to stay is such bullshit. If I had to go through that based off of high school, I would have been sent to Guatemala. Allowing the same system that failed them, a system of education that demeans their personhood, be the final measurement of whether they can stay or not is a betrayal… To say the least.
