People are enraged after Austin high school valedictorian brags about being undocumented

Mayte Lara, Crockett High School's valedictorian came under fire for a tweet that mentioned her status as an undocumented resident of the United States. Mayte Lara, Crockett High School's valedictorian came under fire for a tweet that mentioned her status as an undocumented resident of the United States. Photo: Twitter Photo: Twitter Image 1 of / 35 Caption Close People are enraged after Austin high school valedictorian brags about being undocumented 1 / 35 Back to Gallery

She graduated with a 4.5 GPA from Crockett High School in Austin, had more than 13 cords and medals combined and received a full ride to the University of Texas at Austin — but it's what one Texas teen closed with that has many across the nation enraged.

"...Oh and I'm undocumented," Mayte Lara tweeted on Friday before deleting her Twitter and Facebook account.

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Screenshots of the tweet that read "Valedictorian, 4.5 GPA, full tuition paid for at UT, 13 cords/medals, nice legs, oh and I'm undocumented," circulated on social media before people began chastising the young girl for her "braggadocious" tweet. Two Facebook users posted to CVS Pharmacy's page to ask why an undocumented girl was allegedly employed through the drug store giant.

"Are you aware that you have an illegal alien working for you and bragging on Twitter about being undocumented!," Samantha Ray Wales wrote to CVS via Facebook. "Do you even check the immigration status of your employees? She is Austin, TX ; Mayte Lara. Google her she is all over the Internet."

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Meanwhile, others gave their support to Lara.

"People are completely ignoring the fact that she graduated with all those high honors and are resulting to things like saying how 'she's not even that attractive' or saying how 'they learn different things from us' and the us being referred to American citizens," Facebook user Minh Nguyen said. "What kind of unreasonable, arrogant, scumbag thing is that for you to throw a statement like that out when it is completely outrageous."

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The post received close to 30,000 retweets and likes before she deleted her Twitter account, and later her Facebook account.

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