Surprise! One of our top servers was an illegal immigrant.

For the past few years I've been working with a young lady whom I will call Mary.

Once in awhile, especially during tax season, the papers in the corporate office will have to be updated with your current information.

Mary had to come in early this morning in order to give her information again because something had happened in the system and they lost it.

Unfortunately for her, she inadvertently made an error when telling the manager what her last name was.

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The main office discovered that there was a discrepancy in her actual name and in the name that was listed in the system.

They decided that it wasn't a typo.

Therefore my manager had to confront Mary.

It turns out she had arrived in the United States four years ago and immediately begin learning English.

She very quickly got a job in the restaurant business and, rather than starting a family, she instead remained single while she went to school.

Mary is a friendly girl who likes to go out on the town and is someone that I spent quite a bit of time with.

She is single, high-spirited, hard-working, and easy to get along with.

She is exactly the type of person that a company would want working for them.

Unfortunately, now she finds herself in a very difficult situation. She will either be deported back to Mexico or somehow find a way to stay here.

She only has 10 days to get her papers in order but things are not looking very good for her.

It's shocking really because I've been working with her everyday for a couple of years now.

There's literally no reason that I can think of why Mary should not be allowed to be a part of our workforce in the United States.

There's nothing that I can do for her though.

All I can do is hope for the best.

I normally avoid talking about things like illegal immigration but sometimes it's impossible to do that.........especially when your friend is about to be deported.