First Undocumented Lawyer Allowed To Practice In California Uninvited To Speech At San Antonio School

By Adrian Carrasquillo, BuzzFeed

Saint Mary’s Hall seemed pretty excited to have Sergio Garcia — the first undocumented lawyer allowed to practice in the country after a California supreme court ruling — speak at its model United Nations conference. They described him as an “experienced and exciting keynote speaker” and wrote that it was unfortunate that he had been waiting for a visa for 19 years. But as time passed, he said some at the school were less than friendly to him and then the speaking engagement was canceled because of a dispute over how the payment to him and his foundation would be disbursed.

Garcia informed the college preparatory school that he would be unable to sign the standard W-9 form, which asks him to certify that he is a citizen under threat of perjury, because he is not one.

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