Will the injustice never end?
As the Trump administration continues to enact the will of the voters by tightening the borders that the Biden administration opened wide to import millions of illegals to vote Democrat, panicked Left-wing media propagandists desperately try to prop up their narrative that the President is a cruel, xenophobic dictator.
Case in point: the Chicago Tribune posted today a maudlin, 1300-word profile of an immigrant worried about her legal status, called “‘I’m really not safe’: A Venezuelan poet’s fight to stay and write in the US.”
Oriette D’Angelo, 34, “came to Chicago on a student visa over a decade ago, seeking professional opportunities and escape from a crumbling infrastructure and violence in her home country.” A student who researches and writes poems about themes of dictatorship, she is in the fifth year of a doctorate program at the University of Iowa, which she expects to complete next year. Her goal is to teach at a university. But she has “put years into her degree in Spanish and Portuguese, only to have it threatened by Trump’s immigration agenda.”
By Trump’s “agenda,” the Tribune means enforcing immigration law. Democrats condemn that as racist and dictatorial because it frustrates their survival strategy of importing hordes of potential voters.
In 2020, D’Angelo applied for temporary protected status (TPS) when her Venezuelan passport expired. This resulted in the loss of her international student status. This January, Trump revoked that temporary protected status, so D’Angelo set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to pay for an international student status application. That application was approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in mid-April.
Yes, nothing says racist, oppressive, uncompassionate, dictatorial cruelty quite like having your immigration application, paid for by others, approved for the second time. And yet D’Angelo claims, “Survival mode is not over. Even though I have my student status back, I’m really not safe.”
Why not? “Venezuelans are being categorized as bad,” she claims falsely. The Trump administration is not painting all Venezuelans as bad – just the members of the brutal, Venezuelan-based, international Tren de Aragua gang, which the Biden administration allowed to infiltrate and establish footholds in several American cities. If D’Angelo isn’t a member of Tren de Aragua, there should be no problem.
Nevertheless, she frets, “I want to stay here professionally. I want to finish my dissertation.” With all due respect, someone who came to the United States over ten years ago to study poems about themes of dictatorship, who spent years getting a degree in a language she already speaks, who wants an academic career but still hasn’t finished her dissertation, is not a serious intellectual but a “perpetual student” simply sponging off American largesse. Meanwhile, what does she have to offer her adopted country in return? It’s not unreasonable to ask what potential immigrants to America bring to the table. --->READ MORE HERE
Student ‘researches and writes poems about themes of dictatorship’
A graduate student in Spanish and gender studies is worried she will not be able to finish her 11th year of college here in America due to the president’s immigration policies.
University of Iowa doctoral student Oriette D’Angelo first came to the country in 2015 on a student visa. In addition to her doctorate degree, set to be finished in 2026, D’Angelo is pursuing a “Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies,” according to her university bio.
But that could all be for naught if President Donald Trump begins deporting Venezuelans who have “Temporary Protected Status” visas, which D’Angelo (pictured) has held since 2020. The Trump administration revoked her visa in January but she obtained an international student visa in April.
As a result of her fear, D’Angelo “told her friends she would mail them her notebooks of poems if she had to go back to Venezuela,” according to the Chicago Tribune. “It would be almost impossible to start over,” she said.
“As a student who researches and writes poems about themes of dictatorship, she is heartened by the separation of powers in the United States, but said the federal government’s often contradictory language in this moment feels dangerous,” the Tribune reported.
However, she is still in “survival mode” because the State Department is reviewing social media of foreigners to ensure they are not hostile to the country. --->READ MORE HERE
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