Fury erupts as 37-year illegal alien demands citizenship in viral Spanish rant alongside Dem leaders
Furious users took to social media to blast an illegal alien who has been present in the United States for 37 years after she demanded amnesty in a Spanish rant alongside top Democratic Party leaders."I ask that you be champions of a change in the immigration laws," said Margarita Cielo Balbuena, flanked by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rob Menendez, D-N.J., through an interpreter earlier this week."We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present for at least seven years in this country," she continued.
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Furious users took to social media to blast an illegal alien who has been present in the United States for 37 years after she demanded amnesty in a Spanish rant alongside top Democratic Party leaders."I ask that you be champions of a change in the immigration laws," said Margarita Cielo Balbuena, flanked by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rob Menendez, D-N.J., through an interpreter earlier this week."We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present for at least seven years in this country," she continued. "We need a stop to these raids that immigration is using to terrorize Dover [New Jersey]."ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TOP DEM FOUGHT TO FREE TURNS UP ON VOTER ROLLS: 'MOCKERY OF OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS'A clip of the video went viral online Wednesday."It is not just that someone like me, who has been in this country since 1989, who pays taxes, who is a homeowner, who is a business owner who gives work to others, someone who has children and grandchildren who are born in this country — that I have to suffer the psychological and physical abuse and that I also have to suffer the humiliation that is the violent arrest and detention in a detention center," said Cielo Balbuena.The foreign-born woman was detained in ICE's Elizabeth Detention Center for two months, and claimed that she was treated inhumanely, according to the New Jersey Globe.But online opponents of illegal immigration were not sympathetic to Cielo Balbuena's call.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO MURDERED MICHIGAN WOMAN SUES TRUMP, DEMANDS $75M, PUBLIC APOLOGY, US CITIZENSHIPAmong her most prominent and harshest critics was former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commander-at-large Gregory Bovino."You have lived in the United States since 1989.
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- Furious users took to social media to blast an illegal alien who has been present in the United States for 37 years after she demanded amnesty in a Spanish rant alongside top Democratic Party leaders."I ask that you be champions of a change in the immigration laws," said Margarita Cielo Balbuena, flanked by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rob Menendez, D-N.J., through an interpreter earlier this week."We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present for at least seven years in this country," she continued.
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