How an Undocumented Immigrant from Mexico Became a Star at Goldman Sachs

How an Undocumented Immigrant from Mexico Became a Star at Goldman Sachs
bloomberg.com

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

― Orwell, "1984"

I am going to criticize her approach a little first. She was a minor when coming over, but she did knowingly throw her employer under the bus as an adult who did not appropriately check her status for employment. The fact that this article exists seems a little self-serving and thankless to GS. If you are going under the radar and your employer had a slip up, the least you can do is keep quiet and keep working. You just embarrassed GS for nothing (not that the banking industry cares).

That being said, let's go back to the issue: why was this qualified person not easily allowed to apply for preferential status under the immigration rules? She has a college degree in a select field where we need resources, a job offer from a company more than willing to employ her, yet she was still considered in the same bucket as millions of others? That kind of sucks and it would be the same situation as in high tech.

Again, I know she should have stood in the line as millions of others and waited. However, today that is an unreasonable proposition as for many countries the line that is being considered is for those folks who applied in the 1990s.

There is another conversation to be had about the millions of other people who simply skip the line, and whether we in America try to have it both ways by "not wanting them" but "wanting the cheap tomatoes at the supermarket." That is for another thread.

Also, now that she came out, can her citizenship be revoked? She was in the country illegally for more than a decade, worked illegally, and apparently had tax issues. Don't you have to certify that you've complied with laws and paid your taxes when you apply for permanent residency or citizenship? Don't you have to supply police records for all the places that you've lived when applying for permanent residency? So she must have lied or not supplied all the information that was required. Or did the government just let it slide?

She also admits to marrying her boyfriend in large part because it would legalize her status. That's awfully close to admitting marriage fraud.

Edit: The whole thing sounds a bit like "Look how successful I was, therefore I deserved to live in the US, and I was justified in breaking immigration law." It's a slap in the face to all honest immigrants.