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Peruvian child becomes symbol of US undocumented
• New Zealand HeraldSeven-year-old Daisy Cuevas, thrilled to see herself on television with
US First Lady Michelle Obama, didn't quite understand the predicament
in which she had innocently placed her undocumented Peruvian parents.
"My mum says that Barack Obama is taking away everybody that doesn't
have papers," Daisy told the US first lady at the New
Hampshire Estates Elementary School.
"Well, that's something that we have to work on, right, to make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers," Michelle Obama replied.
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"But my mum doesn't have papers," said Daisy, a US citizen by virtue of her birth.
The colour immediately drained from her mother's face.Watch Streaming Broadcast Live:
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