I work at a high school directly with immigrant students. We never ask about their status, but I can say that overall they are the most respectful, hard-working students in the school. Teachers would rather teach these students than many of the American-born teenagers in our school who haven't an ounce of work ethic, self-respect, dignity or integrity. I've known more than a few immigrant parents who sent their children back to their home country because of misbehavior. The parents understand that it is a privilege to be in this country-one that can be taken away. Many American teenagers way overestimate what they are 'entitled' to as Americans.

I'm against illegal immigration. However, I have to wonder about kids like Daniela who is more American than just Americanized. Do we really want to throw a good catch back? The rules in Washington DC have already been perverted. Cubans are allowed to stay here and receive benefits like legal residents while North Koreans end up in our detention centers. It's totally unfair at each extreme.

With kids like Daniela there must be some kind of different route we should take. After/if the parents get deported perhaps serving military or intelligence service to gain US citizenship is the way to go for these kids. Totally voluntary, of course. Brawnier kids can opt for military service while brainier kids can opt for some scientific branch of our government. The kids can then help their parents out financially or help them legally gain US residency after some grace period.

That's a win-win situation. Let's help them to help us.

I agree with Rich's comment. I also wanted to add that I do not like the one-sided nature of such coverage. There should be someone from the other side represented in these news stories, someone from FAIR or the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in this case. It is completely wrong to characterize Melman or the people at CIS as "anti-immigration". They just want the current immigration laws enforced, a position that is routinely demonized as "racist" or "xenophobic" on PBS and NPR, but which is the mainstream view of the majority of the US population as revealed in poll after poll. In other words, FAIR and CIS are opposed to illegal immigration, which is causing all kinds of problems that PBS and NPR never cover, like overwhelmed schools and hospitals, and overcrowded jails. Why is it that US citizens are always treated to sob stories that ask us to look at this issue from the standpoint of the people breaking the immigration laws, and there are never any stories about US citizens who suffer from the burdens of illegal immigration?

First I want to state I am all for emigration we have a procedure and it has worked for years. is it perfect - nothing is - but most of our families have gone through it with success.

What I don't like is the people that circumvent the laws and hence illegal trying to rewrite our laws. If they want to become American follow the law, if that requires going back home do what they need to do. Why can't this girl apply for a student Visa? In her mind she should not have to but that is what it is.

Stop your crying and just do what is right even if its your parents fault for training you wrong. How do we treat an American that has been trained wrong by there parents to do something illegal? Do we get them consoling , no we throw them in jail. That I don't think is right but that is what we do , why treat someone not of the country better than we treat our own.

This is not against this nice hard working girl its against the process. There are rules to follow , just follow them.