OUT! OUT! OUT!
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015, Esperanza Franco headed for the border, where she worked defending immigrants who faced deportation.
Now she’s the one who might get kicked out of the country.
Franco came to the United States in 2013 from the Canary Islands, an Atlantic Ocean territory of Spain, after graduating from ICADE, a business-oriented law school.
Franco said she asked the Florence Project to sponsor her for a work visa. The work permit attached to her student visa was set to expire in July.
Typically, the demand for visas is more than double the supply, so the government holds a lottery to distribute the precious documents.
She wasn’t selected in the lottery.
Franco’s student-visa work permit expired in July, she said, which meant she would become deportable 60 days later. That’s Sept. 10.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/immigration-lawyer-deport-university-of-pennsylvania-20180819.html