Peru Native Who Voted Illegally in Two U.S. Elections Now Faces Deportation

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    Peru Native Who Voted Illegally in Two U.S. Elections Now Faces Deportation – by   April 15 2017

    Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick left her native Peru in 2001 to seek a better life in America.

    Everything quickly fell into place: She studied English and earned a certificate as a medical translator. Eventually, she married and got a green card as she pursued a career in nursing. She saw her three daughters, born in Peru, become naturalized U.S. citizens.

    She expected the same for herself one day. “I came here as a result of the injustice that I felt in my country,” she recently told NBC News through tears, “which is an irony.”

    The Illinois resident is facing deportation after immigration officials discovered she voted illegally in two U.S. elections in 2006 — despite her objections that she was misled. Her protracted legal battle to stay in America is playing out amid sweeping reversals in immigration law and as President Donald Trump asserts a widely debunked claim that 3 million to 5 million “illegals” voted in the 2016 election.

    Continue to nbcnews.com article: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/peru-native-who-voted-illegally-two-u-s-elections-now-n746721

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