In this file photo, immigrant rights supporters hold giant letters reading “Dream Act” as they demonstrate in favor of Congress passing a ‘Clean Dream Act’ that will prevent the deportation of young immigrants known as Dreamers working and studying in …, an illegal immigrant “Dreamer” who came to the U.S. at age 9, put herself through college and earlier this year was sworn in as a police officer, despite not having legal status in the U.S.
She decided on police work her sophomore year of high school when she, her mother and her sister were in a car accident and the responding officer was so helpful. But college was a struggle. She got her associate’s degree while working two jobs, but when she went for a more advanced degree she had to drop out to work and support her family.
Ms. Nobles, meanwhile, told the committee the brutal details of her daughter’s slaying: The iPhone charging cord used to strangle her, the call she made to her boyfriend that went to voicemail, recording two and a half minutes of her death struggle, and her boyfriend finding her body with the cord wrapped so tightly around her neck that he had to use his teeth to loosen it.
Ms. Nobles testified with a photo of her daughter, in a pink and white frame, sitting in front of her.Sen. Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said the fate of Dreamers like Officer Soto-Rodriguez shouldn’t be held hostage to the border mess.