Welcome to 21st century America, where people congregate to protest and degrade a teen's outstanding achievements in high school.

Wait, what? People in America are actually belittling the education of its future generations?

Do you find this hard to believe? In a country where education is strongly emphasized, how are we under appreciating a scholar's works?

Does the fact that this scholar is an undocumented immigrant change your mind? For a second, you probably found it hard to believe that any American citizen would criticize a child's accomplishments in school. But, now that you know that she is, technically, an illegal immigrant, you have probably changed your mind.

In a country where education is so highly recognized, illegal immigration follows nearby in a ranking of what is important in America. Politics has painted a vivid picture of illegal immigration for us--low class, dark skin, dirty, non-working, money stealing beasts who live off of the American government. Let me be the first to tell you that Larissa Martinez is not a poster child for what we consider to be illegal immigrants.

Technically, by law, Martinez is an undocumented citizen of our country. Technically, we can assume that we are paying for her lavish lifestyle in our country. However, Martinez, only being a teenager, has managed to upstage most American high school students.

Is that what infuriates you? That an undocumented immigrant is changing the future of your country?

To be clear on who Martinez is, she is a teenager who graduated from a Texas high school with a 4.95 GPA. Upon finishing high school, she received a full scholarship to Yale, an Ivy League school anyone and everyone dreams of going to.

I have to admit, I am a little jealous of her success in my country. I am jealous that she is going to an outstanding school in my country- a school that I never would have been accepted to.

However, I am not angry, and I do not hate Martinez for doing what I could not do. Maybe my motivation was not as strong as hers. If I applied myself fully as a high school student, there too could have been a possibility of getting into an Ivy League school. However, I am known as your typical lazy American, and for the person reading this, you are, too, a lazy American. We, as Americans, feel entitled to everything in our country.

Let's be clear: the world is not your oyster, and you do not deserve what you didn't strive to earn.

We are not entitled to 4.95 GPAs or full scholarships to Ivy League schools. We are not entitled to anything.

Sure, Martinez is an undocumented immigrant who is illegally living freely in our country. Unfortunately, she is doing more for the future of our country than more than half of America is doing for itself. Do you hate that? Well, I find that to be so unfortunate for you.

Martinez is not self-entitled to this scholarship, she is self-deserving of it. Since when do we, as Americans, try to take away the intelligence of other people? America thrived as a country from knowledge. We advanced because of intelligent people like Martinez, not because of lazy Americans, like ourselves.

I will change the future of America, and I am sure of it. I am a lazy American because I do not always apply myself fully to the best of my ability. However, I am confident in myself, and I know that one day I will leave a footprint on our country.

This is our country- my country, your country, and Martinez's country. She may not be a legal citizen, but she sure as hell is the poster child for what Americans should be striving to be.

If you are threatened by her intelligence, requesting her deportation is not the answer. She WILL change the future of your country, and for that, you should be appreciative.

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:1-29)

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