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Jessica Colotl, a 22 year-old undocumented student that became a symbol among immigrants in Georgia graduated from Kennesaw University. Colotl was an inspiration to thousands of students for her fight against deportation while trying to finish her studies.

Last year, she was stopped for a traffic violation and turned over to immigration authorities when she lacked the legal documentation. She spent over a month in a detention center before she was let out and given permission to stay in the country another year.

Jessica Colotl obtained a major in Political Science and a minor in French.

Three construction workers in the city of Tallahassee, Florida were arraigned in federal court May 6 on charges of possessing and using a fraudulent document as evidence of work authorization in the United States according to an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE).

In indictments, Oscar Fuentes, 25, Jaime Antonio DeLarca, 24, and Saúl Rivas Dubón, 32, were separately charged with using a fraudulent document as evidence of work authorization in the United States, based upon their presentation of documents such as counterfeit permanent resident cards or counterfeit social security cards to their employer, Nelson & Associates, Inc.

Fuentes was also charged with transfer of a fraudulent identification document.

The defendants face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers, reported The New York Times

While the sweeps of the past commonly led to the deportation of such workers, the “silent raids,” as employers call the audits, usually result in the workers being fired, but in many cases they are not deported. (more…)