Valedictorian honors immigrant parents in powerful graduation speech
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- "It touched my heart to hear it touched other people's hearts," the teen says. READ MORE: gma.abc/2Whrc3q
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Great confidence displayed by this beautiful girl inside and out. Never be ashamed of your background, embracing it makes you better.
nopurpose withoutfamily So true!
nopurpose withoutfamily 👍👍👍💙
Amen
Brought me to tears. Beautiful.
Oh yeah... first comment!
Stanford uni? Wow. She's smart. Good for her.
Lol in my country even a 10th grader can qualify stanford😆
@@lordx4641 ok but wdym by that
@@soniyas8847 i mean standford and harvard are ease to qualify but the internal studies are the real deal🤔🤔🤨
@@lordx4641 woah where are you from?
Lord X “can qualify stanford” oh yes ur country must be smart
When she started describing what the strawberries meant I felt that im gonna start crying throat feeling then when she said her mom loosing feeling I cried like a baby. I’m so proud of you babe 💕 keep climbing 🌷💕 your journey will never stop 🌼
Don’t even know you and I’m so proud of you👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I wanted to hear the entire speech. Well this just goes to show perseverance goes a long way. I'm happy for Brenda she had a beautiful upbringing, ❤️emotionally speaking it seems. 💞
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Yess girl! Thanks for representing our community ❤️
Whenever you enjoy a smoothie with beautiful strawberries don't forget the hands that picked them up for you. Whenever you see a manicured garden think of the sweat of the immigrant that takes care of it lovingly. Immigrants work hard, probably harder than most, to bring food to their table and to those they leave behind.
Go Brenda! I’m so proud of my hometown and so happy I was there to witness her speech! So inspirational!
GOD BLESS YOU. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR PARENTS.
Just learned that this is my second cousin!! Beyond proud!!!
That’s amazing, I know her family is proud‼️👏🏾☺️💖🙏🏾
Once she gets that degree, her parents will never have to work again.🌹
Hard Work Ethic always pays off. Believe in yourself. Good luck!
Congratulations Mija es un orgullo 👏👏👏👏☺️☺️☺️
this year all valedictorian speeches have been great
Such a beautiful speech and such a smart girl. Congrats 🎉
wow what a beautiful soul. I am tearing up
Hermosa! 😍 congratulations! Many of us wouldn’t be where we are if it weren’t for the hard labor work of our parents! 🙏🏼
Way to go Brenda making Mulberry High School proud and your speech brought me to tears when I heard it
We come to America to succeed and better ourselves in many ways not only from Mexico but all around the world we thrive just like any other human but we work harder than many other we don't cross the border to take advantage of no one or anything but to succeed better with our hard work...I did it 33 years ago thanks to my parents n I'm proud to say I came here illegally but to succeed n I have. .more than what us citizens dont do in America..Good for u Brenda u will succeed n become a great woman
@Michael Anderson yes I agree..ur free to have an opinion have a great life😏cause I will😎
@Michael Anderson yes good I'm following it..I'm now llegal and a u.s citizen now and very successful 👩⚕️bye 🙋♀️have a great life
@Michael Anderson u sound bitter but ok I'm turning u off cause I don't want to keep going ar it with something u can't fix ur not positive vibes🙊🙉🙈
Congrats hermana , keep it up !!! 🗽🇺🇸
Me hizo llorar.
Go Strong Beautiful Lady 😊❤💪🙏
Beautiful 💗 🇲🇽
Eleazar's Life shes in america now not mexico. Why fly the flag of the country you left? Must not be a good enough country if she left it.
Tom G but that is her country just because she is in the U.S now for a better future doesn’t have anything to do with her pride for her country that’s where she will always be from
Tanya Guzman then she should go back there if she feels so much pride for it. I dont claim to be a “european-american” or fly flags from different countries related to my heritage/ancestry. America is its own nation believe it or not, not just some free for all to mooch off of.
Lisset Manriquez wrong, my ancestors were never illegal immigrants. By that time the nation had laws set in place, and they followed them, unlike many mexicans.
Lisset Manriquez thats even true of Mexico dumbass. Mexico came from the Spanish Empire, which had been ruled by descendants of Europeans who took land away from Natives. Thats not the point anyways. The point is, is that NOW in the present there are established laws and international norms. Mexico and Mexicans arent following that and then try to justify it using bullshit like a “better life”. Committing crimes and violating sovereignty for a better life? Interesting. Many do it, doesnt mean its acceptable or a logical argument for doing so. My ancestors certainly didnt do that.
Powerful & Beautiful young Lady! Head up and be strong ♥️
Beautiful story ❤
Congratulations young lady
Amazing, god bless you and your family 🙏🏽♥️🇲🇽
proud of her & her parents
Wow i wish her all the best
Awe 😭 😭💔 my heart this makes me cry so many crys omg
Makes me want to make my Mexican parents proud
Right...m.God Bless
Beautiful speech!
proud of her!!!
Bless her!
i got goosebumps
4.68 gpa and no harvard full ride? How did people in my school get that but not her
Harvard doesn’t even give scholarships lol only financial aid
Curly HL she probably did but she chose Stanford
Harvard sucks.
@cfm1181 Not really, she did get accepted to Stanford University with full scholarship. Current Stanford President is white, founders of the school were white as well. kek.
Very inspirational💛
Super awesome ❤️❤️
This message could be delivered to Congress , the senate AND the White House. A lot of people could learn a lesson from young girls speech. It may remind some fat politicians where they come from since some forgot their origins /roots .
Not see Trump the mfs don’t care
IDGAF about her speech the U.S cannot and will not help everyone.
Mickel Warren this country can and won’t help its own vets we know y’all aren’t gonna help foreigners
I don't know why the left cannot get in into their ignorant little brains that we are not now nor have we ever been against immigration. In fact we LOVE our beautifully diverse country, despite the lies the media would like you to believe. We are, however, against ILLEGAL immigration. Why is that so hard to understand. 🤦♀️
Nicola DeFalco . Respectfully, The flip side of your point . Why does the far right media does not promote or amplify this type of accomplishments made by immigrants. Usually is the main stream media that sheds light on these special unique circumstances.
Think about it , is just a thought and opinion.
GET IT GIRLLLL!!!
yas go gurl🙌🏼
Think about kids like her when you privileged individuals that don’t come from the same background as us. You don’t understand and can’t relate that’s why you don’t understand. So next time your commenting shit like “ about time , send them away , deport them all “ all of these nasty comments I’ve read on different videos about what’s going on right now. You people make me sick, and your kids probably aren’t even as half as smart as a lot of kids like this young lady. ✊🇲🇽🇦🇷
Wow😢
Beautiful 💕
There are those who recognize their talents earlier than others. To those people who continue to struggle in furthering their education: Not to worry my friends, for I, alike many people with whom they suffer, are commonly placed together in a land of opportunity. Forget the difficulty in learning, just remember how easy it is to count to 10. Begin from there.
Yasss girl!!!
Gooooo girl!!
😍 best speech
I don’t get it, she’s not the only one with hard working parents
Humbled
No one is against legal immigrants.
Awesome
🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Get it girl
👏👏👏👏👏
Amazing speech😭
But a 4.68 gpa? How is she valedictorian? How does it work cause I had a 4.68 too but not even in the top 10%
really small school in a really small town. it's hard to even be THAT high with so few opportunities available.
Soccer Mom not really... you're just trying to defend her. Yes it was a touching speech but just because she had little opportunities doesn't mean it would be difficult to be that high in a small town
Different weighting system maybe
Maybe you have a different gpa scale some school weight things differently
4.0 is all a's and anything more is extra credit so if your were not in top 10% i dont understand
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This is why America is fucked up all these racist people if she is or is not legal she earned it we are ALL EQUAL NO MATTER WHERE WE COME FROM AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO THE SAME PLACE.
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THIS is the reason why we have desperate parents with their little kids on the borders ! They just want a future for their kids.
Ok let me hear her fucking speak
If she was Asian under the same circumstances, she undoubtedly would not have gotten into stanford
Grc grc grc alo alo alo. Permi como toka potato esa music. Esto me uno total de music grc grc grc. Mundo el uní redex. Niki Laura otros. Y as mundo. Viva my banda. Ok. Estoy en orquesta baike esa bella music árabe jabibi a m mundo. Finde olimpu anil
A M E N
Legal immigration is AMAZING!!!
But no "...gift to play by the Rules"??
Yeah and what are her subjects? ESS?
Wow seriously???? You're so narrow minded. Just cause we're hispanics doesn't mean we're all dumb and in ESS. I am a straight A student with a perfect 6.0 HPA, and no I've never had ESS, I'm in AP classes (college credit classes). I never had a tutor, all that I've achieved is through my own hard work.
@@paolinajs5454 WTF??? You're the one who brought race into this, what does being hispanic have to do with anything? Are you insecured about your ethnicity being hispanic that whenever anyone says anything to a hispanic person, you assume it's an insult because of their race? You're the one who is narrow minded and looking down on ESS. Do you realize that I just asked what her subject is and then you replied in such way that looks down on everyone who studies Environmental Sciences? I asked if she studied ESS because her parents are farmers and she even brought in a fruit that their parents grew. Are you acting so offended just because you think it's easier to score higher in ESS than other science subjects?
@@paolinajs5454 I doubt you got any good scores just judging by how you write lol. More like some kid who is pissed that they keep getting low scores just because they're not good enough and gets offended by everything lmao.
♥️shity Tây Ban Nha chết tiệt.♥️
Played out ...not that interesting
c cc there’s always that one person and you had to be it huh
@@Beast_1996 there is always that one sensitive person, and here you are
@ that fact that you can't express what you want to say without using vulgar words shows that you are the dumb one here. Bye Felicia!
What is she going to major at stanford Uni ? 🤔
AlexCity Bioengineering/medicine
I’m glad she received free education, hopefully she can assimilate and learn the ways of this nation.
Why do you assume she hasn't assimilated? Because she has an accent? Because she's not ashamed of where her parents came from?
And "ways of this nation".... God damn, this isn't Narnia.
Her full speech:
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I like my soda with ICE
*illegal immigrant
Luis Hern what’s the matter you’re not as smart as her?? Figures 🙄
Seriously! She have to say thanks to welfare to. Food stamps, Medicaid,wic, the hospital where she born, free school lunches. What hypocrisy of this people
Lol love how they added immigrant in here to get views and no one cares if you legally come here
Too much democrats agenda 😂😂😂😂
Gay
But nice
These are the people Trump hates
I'm liking this video not because I like it but that way I can find this video easier and made trump comments. BUILD THAT WALL!!
Good now find her parents and send them back to Mexico and have them pay off all taxes
So it's true Mexicans work in the fields!
tro lol. I don’t see any white people working the fields because that work is hard for them to do .
a&a AZ I’m Mexican and guess what I work in the entertainment industry so stfu
Alright now go back home
Probably illegal
Emily Padilla periodt
Emily Padilla still illegal tho
@@tomg4685 still going to Stanford tho
Anxious Neidy still illegitimate in every way possible. Illegitimate citizen, therefore illegitimate high school grad and illegitimate college student.
Being a valedictorian has nothing to do with the argument about whether shes illegal or not, but nice try lmao
this is what America is supposed to be like