There are situations under which your previous status is not an issue for getting a green card; i think being a victim of human crime and marriage are two such situations.
I agree that you cannot or should not punish someone for something that they had no control over. If you're the victim of human trafficking, you didn't choose to break the law.
And I guess the same reasoning can be applied to minors that were brought to the US by their parents. They weren't asked. They had no choice.
So I shouldn't be too sore about her story because she just tried to make the best of the bad situation that her parents got her into. But somehow the article rubs me the wrong way.
It seems odd to me too that Texas and maybe other states would allow illegal immigrants to attend college but give them no perspective on what to do afterwards with their degrees. Maybe they should have petitioned the federal government to go along with: "Alright, you came here illegally as a minor. We're going to ignore that and let you start over now that you're 18. So here's your F1 student visa if you want to stay."
