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Lizbeth Mateo 1st Undocumented Immigrant appointed CA

 

A California Senate committee appointed an undocumented immigrant to a statewide post for the first time, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León's office confirmed Wednesday. The state's Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday appointed Lizbeth Mateo, an undocumented Los Angeles attorney and immigrant rights activist, to be a part of the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee as an adviser on college access and financial aid, the Sacramento Bee reported.

By Shreesha Ghosh @Shreesha_94

03/16/18 AT 2:45 AM

https://www.ibtimes.com/who-lizbeth-mateo-first-undocumented-immigrant-appointed-california-state-office-2663231

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Lizbeth Mateo, a California attorney and immigrant rights leader who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was just 14, has become the first undocumented immigrant to be appointed to a statewide post. Mateo will serve on the state’s Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee, which will advise the Student Aid Commission to help increase higher education access for young people. According to her firm’s website, Mateo was ”the first one in her family to graduate from college,” attending California State University, Northridge and Santa Clara University School of Law. Newsweek: “California became the first state in the U.S. to allow undocumented immigrants to practice law in 2014, with New York following in its footsteps not long after.” Gabe Ortiz

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/15/1749252/-California-attorney-Lizbeth-Mateo-becomes-first-undocumented-immigrant-named-to-statewide-post

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Lizbeth Mateo Jimenez was born in the Zapotec community of Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico, the “World Capital of Mezcal”. Lizbeth moved to Los Angeles when she was 14 years old and learned to speak English while studying at Venice High School.

Lizbeth is the first one in her family to graduate from college – she earned her A.A. Degree from Santa Monica College, her B.A. Degree from California State University, Northridge and her Juris Doctor Degree from Santa Clara University School of Law (Class of 2016). In February 2017, Lizbeth successfully took and passed the CA Bar Exam. She was officially sworn in as an attorney by California’s Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon on June 29, 2017.

Lizbeth has also been an immigrant rights organizer for over 10 years. In 2010, she became one of the first undocumented young people to risk deportation to demand the immediate passage of the Dream Act, when she and three other organizers were arrested for staging a sit in inside Senator McCain’s office in Tucson, AZ. Then in 2013, a few weeks before starting law school, Lizbeth and two other organizers from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance voluntarily left the United States,traveled to Mexico and then returned with six other youth who had been previously deported.

The “Dream 9,” as they came to be known, demanded to be allowed to return home to their families and called for immediate family reunification. All nine successfully returned home to the US

after spending 17 days in a detention center in Arizona. 

Lizbeth was able to return home just in time to attend her first day of law school. Despite meeting the requirements for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program, the Obama Administration denied Lizbeth’s DACA Application eight days before Donald Trump’s inauguration.

But despite the setbacks, Lizbeth remains committed to fighting for the rights of immigrant families and workers. As an attorney, she has helped undocumented young people renew their DACA work permits, has represented detained immigrants and immigrants living in sanctuary, and has successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Her goal is to provide all her clients with competent and quality legal representation.

http://mateolaw.co/lizbethmateo/