Adam Wheeler, “Harvard Student” , Illegal Immigrant Student Hopes Case Helps Ref

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23-year-old Adam Wheeler claims he had perfect academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover and at MIT before enrolling at the prestigious Harvard.
Guess what? He lied.

As a matter of fact, never attended the said schools. Things went well for the Milton, Del., who was admitted to Harvard and became a student in 2007. His “excellent grades” were his downfall, as Harvard started looking into his background when he was applying for the school’s endorsement for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships. The professor reviewing his application then noticed similarities between Wheeler’s writing and that of a colleague, prosecutors said.

Wheeler, an English major, was trying to transfer to Yale and Brown when he was caught in his “web of lies and deceit,”  Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leonesaid. In his applications to Yale and Brown, Wheeler claimed he was employed in the Harvard-affiliated psychiatric ward McLean Hospital, which was false. With his application is a falsified recommendation from an employee at the hospital and from his former Harvard dean.

The truth is before he slithered to Harvard, Wheeler was a student at Bowdoin College in Maine from 2005-07. He was suspended for academic dishonesty, said the authorities.
Massachusetts prosecutors now charged the man with “20 counts of larceny, identity fraud, falsifying an endorsement or approval, and pretending to hold a degree.”

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Illegal Immigrant Student Hopes Case Helps Reform
ATLANTA (AP) When Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant college student, got arrested for a minor traffic violation at her suburban Atlanta campus, she became an accidental poster child for immigration reform.

On Friday, after getting arrested and released from detention for the second time in just over a month, she told reporters at a news conference she hopes her ordeal can help persuade leaders to work for an overhaul of the country's immigration laws.

``I just hope for the best and I hope that something positive comes out of this because we really need a reform to fix this messed up system,'' the 21-year-old told reporters inside a shopping center that caters to metro Atlanta's growing community of Hispanic immigrants. Colotl, who came close to deportation after the traffic arrest, looked overwhelmed by the crush of reporters shouting questions at her.

Colotl is among hundreds of thousands of young people who have been brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents. She was 11 when her parents crossed the border with her from Mexico. Eventually, she graduated from high school in Georgia and entered Kennesaw State University in the fall of 2006. A sorority member who dreams of becoming lawyer, she was set to graduate with a degree in political science this fall.

Her first arrest came on March 30, the day after getting pulled over by university police for a minor traffic violation. She was charged with driving without a license and impeding the flow of traffic.

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Girl who came to U.S. illegally can't get loans

FONTANA - Gladys Castro has all the numbers needed to get into UC Berkeley - except one.
Although the 17-year-old Kaiser High School senior carries a 4.09 grade-point average and has been accepted to the university, she cannot apply for government loans because she's an illegal immigrant and doesn't have a Social Security number.

"I don't know how I'm going to pay for school," she said. "All I want is a chance."

Castro said less than a year ago, one Kaiser High administrator refused to sign a petition supporting federal college aid for illegal immigrants, supposedly saying that they don't deserve to go to American universities.

"I just started crying," Castro said.

Some say Castro has spent her chance on a high school diploma.

"California has already dumped $100,000 in free education (on her)," said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "If you want to be tough about it, you can ask for it to be repaid."

Castro smiles wide and talks fast when asked about her plans to major in political science at the campus she has visited three times.

But the reality of having to pay more than $30,000 in fees per academic year often quenches her enthusiasm to the point of tears, leaving her to ponder a future without a college degree.

When she was 8 years old, her family fled the crime and violence of their hometown in Jalisco, Mexico.

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They are all breaking or have broken the law, right?

[JohnnyReb]

So sad...too bad...blame dad.