Isabel O'Neal
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Template:TOCnestleft Isabel O'Neal is an illegal immigrant from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives in Gilbert, Arizona.
Dan O'Neal and Isabel O'Neal are the parents of Belen Sisa.
March on ICE office; Jeff Sessions is 'Xenophobic'
In Sept, 2017, an article at Arizona Republic by Maria Polletta, Dianna M. Nanez and Laura Gomez-Rodriguez highlighted Isabel O'Neal:[1]
- "Isabel O'Neal, the mother of prominent DACA activist Belen Sisa, said Tuesday's news left her and her family uncertain about the future.
- "“This is the only country they know. They make this country better.”
- "DACA allowed Sisa to enroll at ASU. She wants to become a lawyer.
- ""It's very sad. It's an injustice," O'Neal said, marching with a group of about 80 people to the ICE office in Phoenix.
- "O'Neal, 50, called [former attorney general Jeff] Sessions's speech xenophobic.
- ""People who grew up here, went to school here, are in law school, medical school, pay taxes ... you don't consider them Americans?" she said. "They are not 'aliens.' "
- "“This is the only country they know. They make this country better," she said.