Honduran teen makes last bid in Chicago immigration court to stay in U.S.

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Like most teens, Maryori Urbina-Contreras talks about her life in the future tense: getting her driver’s license in a few more months, finding a part-time job, taking senior year classes at Waukegan High School in English now that she has a command of the language.

For the Honduras-born girl, who is living in the country illegally, reaching those milestones in the United States is far from certain. Her fate is in the hands of a Chicago immigration judge who could decide as soon as Wednesday whether she’ll be granted her request for asylum or be deported. Four years ago, the now 17-year-old fled Honduras by herself — part of a wave of minors escaping violence in mostly Central American countries — in search of a safe place to live. Her story was chronicled a year later, in 2015, in the Tribune.

Maryori doesn’t meet the “Dreamer” qualifications; the program requires her to have arrived in this country at age 16 or younger and to have lived here continuously since 2007. She is making a bid for asylum, a tough argument in the court system, considering Hondurans have faced a 78 percent denial rate nationwide. Her attorney argues the teen can’t live in her home country because of the incessant gang violence that led to her witnessing and becoming the target of violent robberies.

Maryori needs to go back to Honduras, an excellent country , not run by white racists.