From the article: "Just as she was graduating in 2001, a new law made it possible for undocumented Texas students to attend public universities at in-state rates."

Actually this law made it easier for her to attend college as an undocumented immigrant. But then what ? what are undocumented immigrants that graduate from college supposed to do ? go back to working as cooks and maids ?

> She was a minor when she came over. She was just trying to survive and succeed and the laws made it difficult for her to do so.

Her parents brought her in on a tourist visa at 11, which expired when she was 14. She was only here for three years legally; her family could—and should—have returned to Mexico. Mexico is not some third-world hellhole; it's a developed and civilised country (yes, there's drug violence in some parts; it's still one of the nicer countries in the world). It's hardly like they were refugees from the Sudan.

We should walk in someone else's shoes first before judging what they could and should do. We have no idea what her personal circumstances were.

But whatever her parents did or could do, she had little choice in it as a minor.