A disingenuous article that avoids the elephant in the room: she was in the US illegally! How could anyone purporting to pass themself off as a journalist ignore this inconvenient truth? It's tantamount to writing about how a judge sentencing a criminal to life imprisonment affects the family of the convicted. "No Dad around, holidays without the family together...", that sort of thing. But never mentioning that the outcome was the sole responsibility of the convicted. She broke the law, plain and simple. Making an exception for her sets an 11 million person precedent and renders meaningless a law-based immigration process. A border wall would stop situations like this from happening. She can always apply for citizenship the way she should have in the first place: by following US rules and laws. Breaking them is hardly a good start to citizenship in a new country.