PIERRE PART, LA (WCMH) – Hollie Mallett’s security cameras caught a repeat offender–a boy who kept coming into her garage to play with her dog.
The boy is seen pulling up on his bicycle, dashing into Mallett’s garage in Louisiana to hug her dog, and then bolting off.
“Anyone know who this sweet little boy is?” she wrote on Facebook. “Every now and then when he rides his bike he will quickly come and love on my dog or play fetch real quick, but always leaves quick like he doesn’t know if he should be here! I’d like to tell him he’s welcome to stay and play, she loves the attention!”
Friends of hers on Facebook recognized the boy, named Josh, and got his mother in on the conversation.
The boy’s mother, Ginger Breaux, said on Facebook that her son talked about the dog every day when he passed by.
“I’m torn with my heart melting that he adores dogs so much AND with feeling upset that his little booty shouldn’t be going on someone’s property without permission or without me knowing,” she wrote on her own page.
Breaux said her family’s dog passed away last year. The family hasn’t had the time to get a new puppy,
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The valedictorian of Crockett High School’s 2016 class has the spotlight on her after tweeting about being “undocumented” on the night of her graduation.
Mayte Lara Ibarra, who was also the senior class president, tweeted on June 3: “Valedictorian, 4.5GPA, full tuition paid for at UT, 13 cords/medals, nice legs, oh and I’m undocumented” along with several emojis including the Mexican flag.
Her tweet received nearly 20,000 likes and 9,000 retweets. According to the Daily Mail, after her tweet went viral and some people started sending negative responses, Ibarra tweeted, “I want all this attention from strangers to stop already.” Ibarra has since removed her Twitter account.
One of Ibarra’s classmates posted on Facebook supporting Ibarra.
During Crockett High’s graduation ceremony, Ibarra introduced the Pledge of Allegiance as well as the National Anthem. She came back up to the podium to give her valedictorian speech a short time later. During her speech, she mentioned the hard work her class put in and what their future might hold, but she didn’t mention anything about her immigration history. In closing, Ibarra said, “What is coming is better than what is gone. Congratulations class of 2016.”
Undocumented students are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). In 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that certain people who came to the U.S. as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years. In Texas, House Bill 1403—which passed in 2001 and is also known as the DREAM Act—allows certain immigrants to receive in-state tuition if they meet certain requirements.
Last year, the DREAM Act came under scrutiny at the Capitol when some state lawmakers were pushing for the repeal of the law.
A spokesperson for the University of Texas at Austin says while they can’t say anything specifically about Ibarra, the university along with other Texas universities, “have for decades granted two-semester tuition waivers to valedictorians of Texas public high schools, without regard to their residency status. State law also does not distinguish between documented and undocumented graduates of Texas high schools in admissions and financial aid decisions. University policies reflect that law.”
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