Federal immigration authorities have agreed to renew the temporary protection from deportation for a Mexican woman whose case made national headlines eight years ago when she was a Georgia college student, according to a court filing.
The settlement agreement signed last Monday and filed Friday in federal court in Atlanta is the latest twist in 30-year-old Jessica Colotl’s quest to stay in the country she has called home for nearly two decades.
“I am now safe at work and can fully get back to the life I had worked so hard to build here in Georgia with peace of mind,” Colotl said in a news release Friday. “I hope the government finally sees that I just wish to have what everyone else has — stability and security that my home won’t be taken away from me.”
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